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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG96_city-hall-to-u-s-capitol-money-men-nassau-changes-scale_New-York-NY.html
< City Hall to U.S.Capitol >City HallNew York's second City Hall was completed 1700, using stones salvaged from the just-demolished wall after which Wall Street is named. Abraham De Peyster donated the site to the city, enhancing the value of his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5G_j-p-morgan-building_New-York-NY.html
At the corner of Wall and Broad streets, the financial crossroads of the world, sits the House of Morgan. J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., the capitalist's capitalist - known throughout the world of finance, sought out by presidents and potentates - helpe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG4C_48-wall-street-40-wall-street_New-York-NY.html
< 48 Wall Street Side >Museum of American FinanceWhat more appropriate home for the Museum of American Finance than the grand, 30-foot-high banking hall of the former Bank of New York building? The museum - an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG3H_new-york-stock-exchange_New-York-NY.html
The Dow Jones averages, bulls and bears, the great crash of 1929, the bull market of the 1980s and 1990s - here is the beating heart of the world's financial markets, housed in grand neoclassical style at the corner of Wall and Broad streets. Brok…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG38_federal-hall-national-memorial_New-York-NY.html
A majestic statue of George Washington stands on the front steps of Federal Hall in memory of Washington's inauguration as the country's first president - which happened on this spot on April 30th, 1789. The current building is named for the origi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZN_lords-canal_New-York-NY.html
LORDS' CANALLocation: ? Broad StreetDutch Name: ? Heere Gracht
Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant had workmen create the Gracht, or Canal, here on the site of a small creek during the 1650s. The canal stretched from near today's Exchange Place …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFZM_andries-reess-tavern_New-York-NY.html
ANDRIES REES'S TAVERNLocation: ? William Street and Wall StreetDutch Name: ? Smit Straet
Here, in 1660, Andries Rees ran a tavern serving his fellow colonists. Taverns were lively centers of social life in the Netherlands, and Dutch settlers ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6Y_brooklyn_New-York-NY.html
On February 4, 1846, the ship Brooklyn sailed from Manhattan's Old Slip. Chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the ship carried men, women, and children to California as part of the epic movement of Mormons to the West. By …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6X_100-old-slip-new-york-city-police-museum_New-York-NY.html
100 Old Slip was designed by the notable architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt in the New-Italian Renaissance style. Its visual power is created by a rhythmic series of tall arches, heavy rusticated walls and restrained ornamentation. The building's d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDD5_first-latin-school-of-new-amsterdam_New-York-NY.html
The first Latin School of New Amsterdam was founded on this site in 1659 by Dr. Alexander Carolus Cursius Curtius, Lithuanian nobleman and scholar who came to the Dutch colony as Latin School Master upon the invitation of Governor Peter Stuyvesant.