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representatives of the United New Netherland Co., which had been formed to trade with the Indians. This company was replaced by the Dutch West India Co., with chartered

New York, while Fort Amsterdam became Fort James. Under Queen

im. But none ever occupied it as the seat of government was removed to Philadelphia before the house was complete

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railing which now surrounds it was set up in 1771, having been imported from England to enclose a lead equestrian statue of King George III. On the posts of the fence were representations of heads o

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, it was decided to build a Battery to protect the newly acquired possession. Thus the id

line drawn from Water and Whitehall Streets to Greenwich Street. Sixty years after th

which it stood became a small park, retaining the name of the Battery,

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n the military headquarters were transferred to Governor's Island-and became a place of amusement under the name of Castle Garden. It was the first real home of opera in America. General Lafayette was received there in 1824, and there Samuel F. B. Morse first demonstrated the possibility of controll

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was the most conspicuous on the street, and is in about its original state. At No. 9 lived John Morton, called the "rebel banker" by the British, because he loaned large sums to the Continental Congress. His son, General Jacob Morton, occupied the mansion after his marriage in 1791, and c

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built along these paths they were improved by a rough pavement. At the end of the Beaver's Path, close to where Broad S

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s of the city. Almost as old as the city itself, it once extended past the Fort and continued to the river in what is now Battery Place. It was then called P

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everal bridges crossed the inlet, the largest at the point where Stone Street is. Another gave Bridge Street its name. In 1660 the ways on either side were paved, and soon became a market-place for citizens who traded w

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s two added stories. Etienne De Lancey, a Huguenot nobleman, built it as his homestead and occupied it for a quarter of a century. It became a tavern und

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xtended to a ferry where Peck Slip is now. The road afterwards became Great Queen Street, and was line

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treet all the land has been reclaimed. There was a court room and a prison in the building. Before it, where the pi

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is in time became Coonchy and was finally vulgarized to "Quincy." The filling in of this waterway began in 1835 and the slip is now buried beneath Jeanette Park. The

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design, to commemorate the great fire of 1835, which started in Merchant Street,

dent connected with its existence that has crept into the city's history, is a murder. In 1823, a Boston merchant was waylaid and murdered for his money, and was dragge

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as reached. It was the first street to be laid with cobble-stones (16

treets is on the site of the second of the Delmon

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ouse). Before that date it had been called Garden Street. From Hanover to Broad Street was a famous place for boys to coast in winter, and the gr

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ant built the wall along the line of the present street, from river to river. His object was to form a barrier that should enclose the city. It was a w

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ral Hall. The Declaration of Independence was read from the steps in 1776. President Washington was inaugurated there in 1789. The wide strip of pavement on the west side of Nassau Street at Wall Street bears evidence of the former existence of Federal Hall. The latter extended across to the western hou

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outh side of Wall Street at Broad. His slayer, Aaron B

oldiers, the head cut off and the remainder dragged in the mud. The people petitioned the Assembly in 1766 to erect the statue to Pitt, as a recognition of his zealous defence of the American colonies and his eff

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a political centre. It was a prominent institution in the city, resorted to by the wealthy and influential. The building was erected in 1794, and conducted by the Tontine Society of

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and being the public market for the sale of corn and meal was called the "Meal Market." Cut meat was not

1779 the street was filled with tall trees, but during the intensely co

ame up as far as Pearl Street. It was here that Washington landed, coming from

. It was the headquarters for captains of whaling ships and merchants. A semaphore, or marine teleg

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