The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . ess has departed. Now there are splen-did buildings on each side of the street, and itswidth and its gradual sweep and rise to the no ,lxgive a magnificent view of the Treasury buildingand the structures which surround it. But ourthoughts go back with pleasure to the time whenit was unpaved, and the creek ran through it, re-ceiving its little tributary, the Beaver Gracht, andwhen the sheep grazed upon the slopes. Where theStock Exchange stands, the sheep used to congre-gate, and
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . ess has departed. Now there are splen-did buildings on each side of the street, and itswidth and its gradual sweep and rise to the no ,lxgive a magnificent view of the Treasury buildingand the structures which surround it. But ourthoughts go back with pleasure to the time whenit was unpaved, and the creek ran through it, re-ceiving its little tributary, the Beaver Gracht, andwhen the sheep grazed upon the slopes. Where theStock Exchange stands, the sheep used to congre-gate, and at appropriate times they were about where the outside public now is allowedto peep from the gallery at the mysteries. Anotherfavorite place for the sheep to meet was on the NEW VUKK CITY LIFE east side of the street, about wiiere Henry Clewspermits the amiable populace to stimulate its curi-osity by watchini;- the (quotations on his black-boards. From tliat i)oint it is said that the sheepwere often driven to slaughter; for even in thosedays the flesh of rams, ewes and lambs was held -,<:? 4. Diitcli CottnL,.-« :U Bn.:i(l . (ianli-ii Streets, 1800. in liigh favor. The bloatiuf^ of lambs, and the odor ofbroiling chops, has never departed from Broad original owner of the sheep pasture wasDominif Drisin>, whose land bounded on Jan Jan-sen Dams farm, which ran northward from first improvements on the sheep pasture werethe cottages which were built in IGOO at the north-east corner of Exchange Place and Broad Street, 83 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS now occupied by the Mills building. The sheeppasture was included within Wall, Beaver, Newand WiUiam Streets. Cornelius Groesens occupiedthe land west of New Street fronting on Broadway,He was killed by the Indians in 1655, and with- Mills Building, on tlie site of the Dutch Cottages. out doubt was buried in the graveyard at MorrisStreet and Broadway. When the town was surren-dered to the English in 1
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