Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 301
were bought by one John Jones, whoturned the house into a tavern and the groundsinto a public garden, and called them by thename of Ranelagh. A hall for dancing wasset up in the centre of the lawn, and there oneach Monday and Thursday a band discoursedsweet music, and there was, as set forth… … New York Ho>pual in Broadway.[286] OLD-FASHIONED PLEASURE-GARDENS of them had visited as guests in Rutgerssday. All gardens have their day, and the days ofRanelagh numbered twenty years. Then thehouses were destroyed, the grounds levelled,and in their place arose the buildings of theNew York…
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