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Nooks & corners of old New York (1899)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 37

An illustration from Nooks & corners of old New York, 1899, leaf 37
igh ground around Cliff and GoldStreets. Pearl Street near John showsa sweeping curve where it circled aroundthe hills base, and the same sort of curve is seen inMaiden Lane on thesouth and FultonStreet on the north.The first blood ofthe Revolution wasshed on this hillin January, 1770,after the… … Golden Hill Inn OF OLD NEW YORK a building at the corner of John andWilliam Streets. It reads : GOLDEN HILL*HERE, JAN. 18, 1770 THE FIGHT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE SONS OF LIBERTY AND THE BRITISH REGULARS, I 6TH FOOT FIRST BLOODSHED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION The inn is much the same as in…

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