history of inwood

Old Post Road

Mile Marker on Old Post Road in Inwood, New York

Tucked away in a section of the stone wall near the 212th Street and Broadway entrance to Isham Park is an often overlooked survivor of Inwood’s past. The old Albany Post Road mile marker blends into its surroundings, but is hard to miss when you know what to look for. Curved at the top, this [...]

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The Last Working Farm

1933 Photo of last working farm on Manhattan in Inwood.

Today’s Inwood is full of green thumbs, mainly volunteers who tend to Bruce’s Garden, nurse sidewalk flower boxes, and cultivate  community landscapes enjoyed by all.  And while a lucky few have space for a tomato plant or two,  today’s edible gardening needs are fulfilled mainly by a  thriving farmer’s market which gives  Inwood residents access [...]

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1847 Dyckman letter

Detail from an 1847 Dyckman family letter.

Buried in the archives of the New York Historical Society, amid wills, deeds and other mundane paperwork produced over the course of hundreds of years, hides a letter. As stories of the far off Mexican American War dominated the headlines a young man in Richmond put quill to paper and wrote to his aunt, Maria [...]

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