Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 54
sh Water Pond, prisonThis deep body of water took up, ap-proximately, the space between thepresent Baxter, Elm, Canal and PearlStreets. When the Island of Manhat-tan was first inhabited, a swamp stretchedin a wide belt across it from whereRoosevelt Slip is now to the end ofCanal Street on the west… … The Tombs NOOKS AND CORNERS the Collect to the North River, on a line with the present Canal Street. With the progress of the city to the north, The the pond was drained, and the swamp Collect J made into nrm ground. In 1816, theCorporation Yards occupied the blockof Elm, Centre, Leonard and…
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