VALENTINE'S MANUAL

Rose Hill was the name of the country seat of John
Watts, Esq., prior to the Revolution. The estate covered
some twenty-five blocks in the present Eighteenth Ward.

Bosch Bouwcry, or Bush farm, was an old estate in the
vicinity of the prescnt Seventh Avenue and Twenty-fifth
Street.

Horcn Hook, a somewhat equivocal Dutch cognomen,
given to the point of this island opposite Hell Gate, was
in after years changed to Horn's hook.

Brannon's Garden was about the year 1765, established
as a place of public resort along the Greenwich road, on
the North River shore, about the present foot of Canal
Street.

Fitzroy Road formerly led frora Greenwich viUage to
the present Forty-.second Street. It was originally a part
of the Great Kilĸ Road, leading to a rivulet known as
the Great KiU brook, near which was a glass furnace, on
the northerly boundary of an estate of Sir Peter Warren.

The Parade.—This name was given, at an early period,
to thc space in front of the old Fort, now known as the
Bowling Green.

1770.—Permission was grantcd that the equestrian
statue of King George III, be erccted thereon, on its
arrival.

1770.—Ordcred, That a tcmporary fencc be crected round
the Bowling Green of posts and rails, not to exceed five
rails high.
 

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