2-752-528 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'King's Bridge', 1874. Bridge over the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, New York City, USA. 'King's Bridge crosses the river near Spuyten-Duyvil Creek, which unites the Harlem [River] with the Hudson [River]. This is an old, historic bridge, identified with many of the early events in the history of the town'. The first King's Bridge was built in 1693 at Marble Hill near what is now West 230th Street in the Bronx. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]