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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt:... II.--SNAKAPINS, A SIWANOY SITE AT CLASONS POINT HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION By Reglnald Pelham Bolton Member Of The New York H1stor1cal Soc1ety The modern Clason, or Clasons, point is usually known by its pleasure resort, situated at its eastern extremity, and the crowds of summer visitors who frequent the place have little concern in the historical character of the locality, and perhaps as small an interest in the picturesque views of marshland and rolling meadow which can be had from the trolley on the Clasons Point road, now renamed Sound View avenue. The tract is a long promontory stretching a mile and a half from Westchester avenue to the blue waters of Long Island sound, with a width of but a few hundred yards at any part (pl. 1x). Part of its ancient physical boundaries remain at this date, being Bronx river on the west side, and the winding rivulets known as Pugsleys and Wilkins creeks on the east. Its northern limit was a line drawn between the head of Wilkins creek and that of Barretts creek which extended from the Bronx river at the "Black Rock" in an easterly direction. This tract, admirably adapted to native existence, was known to the Indians of the locality as "Snakapins," 1 and its recent exploration, conducted by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, proves that their occupancy of the place was a permanent one. The village-site which has been discovered and explored, affording evidences of long-continued residence, is the knoll of sandy ground, sloping to the south, situated on the western side of the old Clasons Point road, now Sound View avenue, at its 1 Beauchamp, in his Aboriginal Place Names of New York (Bulletin 10S, N. Y. State Museum, p. 254-5), quotes Tooker to the effect that the name Snakapins is...