The bridge was reconstructed in 1713 and altered slightly a few times in the intervening 200 years. It was more than six years after the council, at that time, decided to pursue a new bridge location a half-mile upstream, rather than rebuild the bridge at the site it had been located at since 1928.
It was located near the swamp and was completed in 1759 by Jacob Dykeman (now spelled Dyckman) on the Manhattan side and Johannes Vermilyea on the Bronx side as a toll saving alternate to the Kings Bridge for the farmers of Westchester County. At 19 feet wide and only 68 feet long with 38 foot approaches, the wooden bridge had become obsolete with the building of the filling in of Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The 1713 reconstructed Kings Bridge was diverted at present day Broadway at about 227th Street and crossed over the original path of Spuyten Duyvil Creek to Kingsbridge Avenue in the Bronx. The route to the castle then was much further to the north, running along a long ridge which crossed a narrow part of the waterway at something called the King’s Bridge, which is first recorded on maps in the seventeenth cnetury.
