Site of Homestead
Bronck and Kuyter navigated up the East River to land was within the territory of the Siwanoy and Wecquaesgeek groups of Lenape who inhabited it at the time of colonialization. It is said that Bronck wrote of his new home: "The invisible hand of the Almighty Father, surely guided me to this beautiful country, a land covered with virgin forest and unlimited opportunities. It is a veritable paradise and needs but the industrious hand of man to make it the finest and most beautiful region in all the world." While Kuyter chose land on the west bank on the island of Manhattan. Teuntie and Jonas Bronck’s house was built by a promontory at the juncture of the Harlem River and the Bronx Kill across from Randalls Island and was constructed like "a miniature fort with stone walls and a tile roof". Bronck's farmstead consisted of about 274 hectares (680 acres), which being a religious man, he named Emaus. (Emmaus, according to the The New Testament, is where Jesus appeared before two of his followers after his resurrection.) The site (40°48′13″N 73°55′33″W / 40.80361°N 73.92583°W / 40.80361; -73.92583 (Jonas Bronck homestead)). in Mott Haven is about 1,000 feet south of Bruckner Boulevard and 500 feet east of the Willis Avenue Bridge, on a tract now part of the Harlem River Intermodal Yard though which runs the Oak Point Link.
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