[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] now known as Castle point, there existed an Indian fortified position or "castle" (9), from which the local name is derived, situated on an elevation of about 60 feet above tide-water. Below this eminence spreads a tract of about eight acres of rich farm-land, abundantly furnished with oyster-shells and yielding from time to time fine specimens of native weapons and tools. At the extremity of that neck there is also a shore station, where evidences still exist of extensive native work in the manufacture of wampum from clam-shells. Such an important station as Castle point evidently required a pathway, which doubt-less must have connected it with the Siwa-noy village on the Bear Swamp road. The traffic between the two places could have passed most conveniently by way of the old Unionport road, which, after crossing Westchester avenue, followed the approxi-mate line of Avenue C, or Castle Point road, which leads directly to the site of the one-time Screven residence that occu-pied the hillock on which the Indian place