Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 127
Square, ran through thepresent Minetta Street and on to theriver. In 1795, during a yellow feverepidemic, the field was used as a com-mon graveyard. In 1797 the paupergraveyard which had been in the presentMadison Square, was abandoned in favorof this one. There was a gallows onthe ground and… … Looking South fromMinetta Lane OF OLD NEW YORK half acres of ground were added to theplot and the present Washington Squarewas opened. Past the pauper graveyard ran an Obelisk Laneinland road to Greenwich Village. Thisextended from the Post Road (now theBowery) at the present Astor Place nearCooper…
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