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Excerpt from Historic Buildings: Now Standing in New York, Which Were Erected Prior to Eighteen Hundred
At the beginning of 1800, the population was and a flourishing town had sprung up about New Harlem and-in Greenwich, that section of New York around Gansevoort Market, Christopher and West roth Streets, the original estate of Sir Peter Warren, the English admiral. Another settlement known as Chelsea had also begun in the section now-roughly bounded by Eighth Avenue, 2oth and 23d Streets, where, in 1750, Captain Thomas Clarke, the veteran of the French and Indian War, had his country home. But most of New York, however, above City Hall Park was open country; and above 14th Street it was heavily wooded. Such was the condition of New York in 1800. To some of the old houses then standing, which still remain, your attention is now invited.
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