The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09

Garments road and Macomb's Dam road,
the latter remains. Tubby Hook was a
hamlet along the present Dyckman street.
About 1850 the name Of the settlement was
changed TO Inwood, by which 1t is known
to-day. In the early part of the nineteenth
century Lows Cross road ran from the
Bloomingdale road broadway to the
Post road (near Lexington avenue at this
point near the present line Of Forty-second
street. At its eastern junction Ia 1920
stood Odell's tavern. A few houses near
the junction and on Dutch Hills to the
eastward formed Odellville. When the
post road was wiped out in 1889 the name
Odellville went with it.
Turtle Bay and Hips Bay, names famous
in Revolutionary annals, were at one time
distinct settlements between the Post
road Third avenuel and the East River.
The Turtle Bay farm extended for half
a mile north of Thirty-ninth street; Hips
Bay farm from Thirty-third to Thirty
ninth street. The early Kip estate ex-
tended southwark to Ash Creek, The
northern part was cut ups when streets
we're put through and called kipsboro.
IL retained this name until about 1850.
Rose Hill, famous as the estate Of Gen.
Gates where he lived from 1890 until his death
in 1906. lay south of the early Kip farm
10 about Twenty-second street, 1t did not
form a distinct settlement, except near
it's western border, where Bull 3 Head VII
lage arose. 1t filed up rapidly after streets
we're cut through about 1880. Bulls Head
village was begun in 1920, after the famous
Bulls Head Tavern Of the Bowery and the
adjoining ~stockyards were demolished. A
new Bulls Head Tavern was erected at
Twentv-fourth street and Third avenue.
and st ock yards established northward to
| Twentv-sixth street. A settlement n the
vicinity consisted mainly OF cattle and
horse dealers and workers in the stock
wards. The stock yards we're removed
about 1850 and the name fell into disuse.
With the removal Of the old tavern in 1906
the name bee virtually extinct. Dry
Dock village, a settlement Of shipbuilders.
dry dock and foundry workers, was es-
tablished along the East Rive from Hous-
ton to Twelfth street about 1885. Its name
is pc rpetuated in Dry Dock street,
Bowery village was the most famous OF
the extinct villages on Manhattan Island,
The original Governors Bouwerie extended
from the present Division street TO Thirty
third street, east OF the post road (Bowery
and Fourth a%venue). The Governors house
STOOD on a lou dalolnnB tHe pioSSht ~
Marks Church. The Governor and later
his widow and children offered inducements
20 tenants who would settle or the Bouwerie.
a church was built for them and by 1902
nearly 400 persons lived in the Bowery
village, mostly within a short distance OF
the Governors house. The most distant
house was Clapp's tavern about the present
junction OF Fourth avenue and Fourteenth
street, the last house in the village on the
road 10 Harlem in 100.
Subdivisions among heirs reduced the
estate until in l74l The main part, then called
Petersheld. contained but 900 acres; The
southern part was sold 10 James Delaney
in 1851 and the remaining portion OF Peters,
field was divided between Peter @. Rno
Nicholas William StuyvesAnt. After the
Revolution the Government confeoateo
the Delaney estate and IL was sold Rnd
cut up into cheap building lots, Unit
this time Petersheid was separated from
the city by Delancey's private estate or
the south and Bayard's farm and SperrTi