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Show j FORTIFICATIONS OF OLD NEW YORK CTHE.OUKE-SPtANjX. Ck' I 7 y Ui,S,al,.ITn.,H..J,.J,...J,..iW,V.a.,.' The extremely Inter. Tiler; plan herewith reproduced wait ilttrovered by the bile (ieiii'i II. Moor In the HrllM) Milteiltu ntld rniih'il (nr hlin, III I !:.. It ahnwa tin" "lay nut" of Iho orlKlnal Hutch leltlenient It Include, In-clude, an w ill bi aci'tt. only Unt part of the Inland which la below Wall Htreet, w lltcb m um nil that ttirrtwattof the trndlim unt of forty yeiri' exlat-occc. exlat-occc. Iho tradliiK pout bciiaa with furl at thn tmiHt 'iiivenlent alace of liinilliiK. which wna at Arm i mere bliK'lihoioie with cedar paluidm, thn preaent lluttcty. The very Hm trad- era, who could hardly bn catted act-tiers, act-tiers, were iloubtlcHH linlueil wllbln Its shelter, wllbln which nlao thn llrst church was built. The first church of ninaoiiiy. by the way. and thn find tavern, w-ere built in the same year, lti-12. Iho former within thn tort, the latter at the corner of IVurl st rivet and Coetitles Klip. As real aettlera rniiui hi Increasing uuniberH. those of them who were tnidera and vIllaKcra rHtabllahcd tbetiiselvca aa near tho fort as they could, and alonif the water front of the Kant river, for alinia the wuter front of thu North river there waa very little building, and thnt aide of the lower city has ever slnco continued to lag behind Iho other In Its commercial development. develop-ment. To the north of the village was established another defense, a rcnl "wall," or at least a real palisade, with Kates, erected under rltityvonant, on the announcement of war between Holland and Kngland In 11153, as a defense de-fense against the encroaching Yankees, Yan-kees, and this, now become Wall atreot, was the northern boundary. There waa nothing beyond It but fiirtnar-New York Times. |