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Another famous glacial erratic lay about a mile west of the Bronx River at 166th Street and the Boston Post Road.An immense loaf-shaped boulder of

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People often wonder why the Bronx, alone of all New York’s boroughs, has “the” as part of its name. It’s because the borough is named

Over the many years of restoration work, lots of curious objects have been pulled out of the Bronx River, and sometimes they pose a real

Old Scrooge wasn’t the only beaver to bedevil the zookeepers along the Bronx River: he was preceded in his role of chief troublemaker by Big

While we are careful to specify that no “wild” beavers have been seen on the Bronx River since the end of the 1700s, beavers have

Jonas the Peacemaker Jonas Bronck, who gave his name to the Bronx River, was also a man of peace who sought to reconcile a festering

Beaver Tales Impressed with the beaver’s aquatic engineering skills, the Algonquin peoples called them “the Old Wise Ones.”It was believed that the beaver had once

Although it was called the “Fur Trade,” Europeans valued beavers for wool rather than fur.  The rough texture of the beaver’s dense wooly undercoat made