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18-503: Rattlesnake Creek may refer to: Rattlesnake Creek (Bronx) Rattlesnake Creek (Kansas) Rattlesnake Creek (Ohio) Rattlesnake Creek (Big Walnut Creek) , a stream in Ohio Rattlesnake Creek (Oregon) Rattlesnake Creek (Spring Brook) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with

36-471: A mill to dam the creek south of Boston Road, creating Holler's Pond. Further upstream, the creek was dammed by William Seton, son of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton , who owned the land around what is now Seton Falls Park in the mid-19th century. This created two more ponds and a waterfall. Seton's mill was destroyed in a 1900 storm, but the waterfall remained. The cascade was described as a 30-foot (9.1 m) descent with two separate falls. Also located along

54-647: Is now the Bronx , and land to the west along Long Island Sound in what is now Westchester County, extending west to the Hutchinson River and north to Mamaroneck . There are no contemporary records of the price he paid for the land, but an 1886 source states that the Siwanoy were paid with "sundry hogshead of Jamaica rum ". He named the area Pelham in honor of Pelham Burton, who had been his tutor in England (Although there

72-576: Is reason to believe this attribution is not correct). Pell was legally challenged by the Dutch courts, who considered the "English were trespassing on Dutch territory". This dispute was finally resolved by Pell in September 1664 when the British Navy, supported by a militia invasion force consisting largely of City Island colonists and led by Pell himself, entered New Amsterdam and forced Peter Stuyvesant ,

90-621: The Dutch Governor of New Netherland , to surrender the colony to the British. Pell died on September 21, 1669, in Fairfield, Connecticut . Having no children, he left his estate to a nephew, Sir John Pell (1643–1702), son of Thomas's only brother John. His nephew traveled from England to New York and took up residence as the 2nd Lord of the Manor of Pelham . The Pell family lived in this area until

108-539: The Hutchinson River. The construction of Freedomland resulted in drastic landscaping changes around the mouth of the creek. Freedomland was shuttered in 1964 and its site was used for the development of Co-op City. Rattlesnake Creek remains mostly extant, albeit in underground pipes. The only remaining above-ground section of the creek upstream is in Seton Falls Park. Within the park, an exit culvert from

126-589: The Rev. John Pell, who was from Southwick , Sussex . His younger brother was the mathematician and political agent John Pell . His father died in 1616 and his mother died the following year. He studied at Cambridge , but did not finish his course. In the 1630s he emigrated to New England ; he lived in Fairfield, Connecticut , as of 1654. In 1654, Pell signed a treaty with Chief Wampage and other Siwanoy Indian tribal members that granted him 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of tribal land, including all or part of what

144-535: The brook may have been the estate of Anne Hutchinson , which according to a 1929 map was located in Baychester between Rattlesnake Creek and a now-filled stream called Black Dog Brook. By 1926, Rattlesnake Creek was polluted and several cases of typhoid could be traced to the creek. After Seton Falls Park was acquired by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in 1930, the agency rerouted

162-687: The creek was destroyed in 1973, creating a swamp that killed nearby trees, though the culvert and a sewer pipe under it were restored in the mid-1980s. A vestige of the old Holler's Pond mill's existence is Reeds Mill Lane, a discontinuous road between Boston Road and the New England Thruway , which cuts an irregular route through the Baychester street grid. 40°53′18″N 73°50′25″W  /  40.88833°N 73.84028°W  / 40.88833; -73.84028 Thomas Pell Thomas Pell, 1st Lord of Pelham Manor (1608 – September 21, 1669)

180-451: The creek's path within the park into a stone channel and infilled the two ponds on the Seton estate. Downstream, Holler's Pond was used to harvest ice, and there were several ice houses on the shore of the pond, which were all demolished by 1935. The pond was also popular among ice-skaters until it was infilled in 1951. Boston-Secor Houses was built over the infilled pond in 1968. There

198-488: The creek's path. A small nature preserve called the Givans Creek Woods is located at the northern portion of Co-op City, near the intersection of Baychester Avenue and Co-op City Boulevard. Despite its name, which is derived from Scottish immigrant Robert Givan, it is located above Rattlesnake Creek. The actual Givans Creek is located slightly to the south. There was once an abundant population of rattlesnakes in

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216-401: The northeast Bronx, after which the creek is named. The rattlesnake population was identified as a problem in the late 18th century, when Eastchester town officials agreed to meet once a week to discuss the eradication of the snakes. According to a Bronx historian, Eastchester's ten founding families dedicated one day each spring "for the destroying of rattlesnake", using hogs to hunt down

234-517: The rattlesnakes because the hogs' fat was resistant to the snakes' fangs. By the early 20th century, the snake population had been eliminated. However, some sources put their eradication at an earlier date, saying that the last snake was a 6-foot-long (1.8 m) specimen killed in 1775. Prior to the American Revolutionary War , the area around Rattlesnake Creek was owned by Thomas Pell . In 1739, Thomas Shute and Joseph Stanton built

252-495: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rattlesnake_Creek&oldid=962674725 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rattlesnake Creek (Bronx) According to old maps,

270-503: The site of the Boston Secor Houses in the Baychester neighborhood. Rattlesnake Creek then passes through Co-op City , draining into the Hutchinson River . Before draining into the Hutchinson River, it split into two small distributaries , one of which was named Mill Creek. The majority of Co-op City was built atop the mouth of Rattlesnake Creek. Some streets such as Alcott Place, Bellamy Loop, and Dreiser Loop directly follow

288-423: The source of the creek was near Nereid and Hill Avenues in the Bronx's Wakefield neighborhood, where it flows southwest, then turns southeast near East 233rd Street . It then flows above ground at Seton Falls Park , entering a man-made waterfall. After exiting the park, it flows back underground. South of Boston Road , the creek flowed into a 15-acre (6.1 ha) man-made pond called Holler's Pond, located at

306-457: Was a wood-framed beer garden on the shore of the pond, at 4018 Boston Road near the intersection with Dyre Avenue, which was demolished in 1960. The mouth of the creek was covered in 1960 by Freedomland U.S.A. , a theme park dedicated to the history of the United States . Before Freedomland's construction, that land had been a municipal landfill built atop the marshland on the banks of

324-509: Was an English-born physician who bought the area known as Pelham, New York , as well as land that now includes the eastern Bronx and southern Westchester County, New York , and founded the town of Westchester at the head of navigation on Westchester Creek in 1654. Pell was born in Sussex , England in 1608. He was the eldest of two sons born to the former Mary Holland, from Halden in Kent , and

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