[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] place where the monument now stands, stating, as a reason for their being on the west side, that the road makes a bend just there, and they wanted to keep watch up the road, which they could not have done on the east side, as the bend to the east just there would have hidden the road above from their view.1 Major Andre is said to have come into the Tarry-town road near a small hamlet called Sparta. below Sing Sing. This road he pursued undisturbed until he was over the little stream which now Hows west-ward through the premises of Mr. l<)..1. Blake, ami crosses the public highway in its course to the river. This stream was destined to be the limit to his pro-.' gress, and now bears, as it probably always will, the name of Andre Brook. About one mile and a half northeast of the Hud-son River Railroad depot at Tarrytown, on the north side of the old road to White Plains, and only about half a mile from the Tarrytown depot on the North-ern Railroad, there stands an old one-story-and-a-half