Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 278
ections, and themarkets came in for their share. The sham-bles disappeared, and substantial buildings tooktheir place. Just as the seventeenth centuryclosed, one .of these improved buildings waserected on the East River shore, pleasantlysituated in a valley, with a little stream bub-bling beside it… … TOWN MARKETS ** Fly Market. The valley through whichthe little stream ran has become MaidenLane. For more than a hundred years the FlyMarket endured. It was still standing in1820, when the Agricultural Society offeredthree prizes of silver to the farmers whoshould produce the best butter. There…
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