The East Bronx History Forum is pleased to announce it will be holding its 183rd meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19th in Bartus Hall at the First Lutheran Church located at 3075 Baisley Avenue.
Our speaker this month will be Dorothy Poggi who will discuss the history of the neighborhood of Ferry Point Park.
Ferry Point Park gets its name from an old ferry system that ran from Westchester Square, stopped at the Unionport dock, the Ferris dock, present-day Ferry Point area and eventually on to Whitestone Landing in Queens. Ferry Point itself was part of the Throgmorton family in 1642 and passed to another notable family being the Ferris family in 1750. Ferry Point was a corruption of the name Ferris which was similar in sound to the true name of the community Ferris Point. During the time the Ferris family owned it from 1750 to 1900, it was mostly farmland. Numerous other Bronx families owned it after 1900 until the Catholic Church which had its House of the Good Shepherd and eventually sold out to the city in 1937. Dorothy Poggi, a life-long resident of Ferry Point Park is the founder and President of Friends of Ferry Point Park and founder and President of Ferry Point Community Advocates. Some of the topics she will explore include the burial grounds of local Native Americans to the possible threat of a gambling casino, to its days as farmland and now to an Industrial Park. Horse and carriage were a popular mode of transportation in the late 19th century and Ferry Point can now boast of having the largest cloverleaf of highways in the city.
As always, the EBHF meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit BronxNYC.com, as well as our Facebook and Instagram pages.Looking forward to seeing you.
Dorothy A. KrynickiSecretary, East Bronx History Forum
Our speaker this month will be Dorothy Poggi who will discuss the history of the neighborhood of Ferry Point Park.
Ferry Point Park gets its name from an old ferry system that ran from Westchester Square, stopped at the Unionport dock, the Ferris dock, present-day Ferry Point area and eventually on to Whitestone Landing in Queens. Ferry Point itself was part of the Throgmorton family in 1642 and passed to another notable family being the Ferris family in 1750. Ferry Point was a corruption of the name Ferris which was similar in sound to the true name of the community Ferris Point. During the time the Ferris family owned it from 1750 to 1900, it was mostly farmland. Numerous other Bronx families owned it after 1900 until the Catholic Church which had its House of the Good Shepherd and eventually sold out to the city in 1937. Dorothy Poggi, a life-long resident of Ferry Point Park is the founder and President of Friends of Ferry Point Park and founder and President of Ferry Point Community Advocates. Some of the topics she will explore include the burial grounds of local Native Americans to the possible threat of a gambling casino, to its days as farmland and now to an Industrial Park. Horse and carriage were a popular mode of transportation in the late 19th century and Ferry Point can now boast of having the largest cloverleaf of highways in the city.
As always, the EBHF meetings are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit BronxNYC.com, as well as our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Dorothy A. Krynicki
Secretary, East Bronx History Forum
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