. Nooks & corners of old New York . en. It was thefirst real home of opera in Lafayette was received there in1824, and there Samuel F, B. Morsefirst demonstrated the possibility of con-trolling an electric current in Lind, under the management ofP. T. Barnum, appeared there in 1855 it became a depot for the re-ception of immigrants; in 1890 theoffices were removed to Ellis Island,and in 1896, after many postponements,Castle Garden was opened as a publicaquarium. State Street, facing the Battery, dur- Stateing the latter part of the eighteenth andthe early par
. Nooks & corners of old New York . en. It was thefirst real home of opera in Lafayette was received there in1824, and there Samuel F, B. Morsefirst demonstrated the possibility of con-trolling an electric current in Lind, under the management ofP. T. Barnum, appeared there in 1855 it became a depot for the re-ception of immigrants; in 1890 theoffices were removed to Ellis Island,and in 1896, after many postponements,Castle Garden was opened as a publicaquarium. State Street, facing the Battery, dur- Stateing the latter part of the eighteenth andthe early part of the nineteenth century, 5 NOOKS AND CORNERS was the fashionable quarter of the clty^and on it were the homes of the of the old houses still 7j now a home for immigrant Irishgirls, was the most conspicuous on thestreet, and is in about its original No. 9 lived John Morton, called the rebel banker * by the Britishj becausehe loaned large sums to the ContinentalCongress. His son, General Jacob. N° 7 State 5tr&l OF OLD MEW YORK. Morton, occupied the mansion after hismarriage in 1791, and commanded themilitia. Long after he became too in-firm to actually command) from thebalcony of his home he reviewed on theBattery parade grounds the TompkinsBlues and the Light Guards. Theveterans of these commands, by legis-lative enactment in 1 868, were incorpo-rated as the a Old Guard. On the building at 4 and 6 Pearl TheStreet, corner State Street, is a tablet a UISwhich reads : 1636 J%97 ON THIS SITE STOOD THE <fSTADHUISOF NEW AMSTERDAM—ERECTED 1636THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE IN LOVINO MEMORYOF THE FIRST DUTCH SETTLERS BY THEHOLLAND DAMES OF THE NEWNETHERLANDS AND THEKNIGHTS OP THE LEGION OF THE CROWN LAVINIA KOtflCIN It was set up October 7, 1897, andmarks the supposed site of the first City 7 NOOKS AND CORNERS Hall. What is claimed by most au-thorities to be the real site is at PearlStreet, opposite Coenties Slip-Whitehall Street was one of the
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