Glover’s Rock
Glover’s Rock is a memorial in Bronx, New York. Glover’s Rock is situated nearby to the grassland The Meadow, as well as near Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum and High Island.
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Museum
Photo: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx. Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is situated 2,600 feet north of Glover’s Rock.
High Island
Islet
Photo: Bigtimepeace, Public domain.
High Island is a small, uninhabited, privately-owned island, part of the Pelham Islands in the Bronx, New York City. It lies east of the north end of City Island between City Island Harbor and Pelham Bay in Long Island Sound.
City Island Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
The City Island Bridge is a bridge in the New York City borough of the Bronx, connecting City Island with Rodman's Neck on the mainland. The original bridge, which carried vehicles from 1901 to 2015, was replaced by the current bridge, which opened in 2017. City Island Bridge is situated 4,200 feet southeast of Glover’s Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Co-op City and City Island.
Co-op City
Neighborhood
Co-op City is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods.
City Island
Suburb
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles long by 0.5 miles wide.
Pelham
Photo: Sscheinfe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pelham is a town in Westchester County, New York. It contains villages called Pelham and Pelham Manor.
Glover’s Rock
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “GLOVER’S ROCK / NEAR THIS SITE ON OCTOBER 18, 1776, / COL. JOHN GLOVER AND 600 PATRIOTS HELD OFF / BRITISH AND HESSIAN FORCES UNDER GEN. HOWE / LONG ENOUGH TO SAVE WASHINGTON’S TROOPS / FROM DESTRUCTION, ENABLING THEM TO WITHDRAW / TO WESTCHESTER AND ULTI”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.86491° or 40° 51′ 54″ northLongitude
-73.80336° or 73° 48′ 12″ westOpen location code
87G8V57W+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 9826075393OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Meadow and Middle Rock.
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