Author: Hamilton Schuyler
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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A History of St. Michael's Church, Trenton
Author: Hamilton Schuyler
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Academia Tertia Anglicana; Or, The Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton Shires ...
Author: Francis Peck
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Category : Stamford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Before Central Park
Author: Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers. This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today.
Journal of the ... Convention of the Diocese of New York
Author: Episcopal Church. Diocese of New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Journal of the ... Annual Convention, Diocese of New York
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Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Anglican Communion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Freemason's Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Park and the People
Author: Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Delineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.