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When old New York was young (1902)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 314

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owing more abundant with eachpassing season—the great magician Fancy haspower to conjure up the thronging ghostsof the past that wander over it, and to findmore than one forgotten relic of olden daysto dwell upon. Surely the wraiths of a long-gone day could find no safer resting-placethan the… … SPRING VALLEY FARM was in the beginning. Facing the wrongway for modern Fifty-third Street, it seemsto be tarrying away an endless existence in astraggling lumber-yard, amid a mass of cast-away building material. But for all its age (and it stood there longyears before there was another…

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