New York sight-seeing taxicab tours : descriptive pamphlet of tour no2, Upper West Side. . THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK isone of the most interesting objects, asit brings us back many centuries,having been first erected in the 1 6thcentury B. C, in Cairo, Egypt. It hasseen kings and empires rise, flourishand pass away. It was removed byAugustus Caesar to Alexandria, anderected before the temple of Caesar12 In the year 1877 it waspresented to the United States by theKhedive of Egypt, and was erectedon the present site in 1881. Thecost of removal was $102,5 76,which was contributed by WilliamVander
New York sight-seeing taxicab tours : descriptive pamphlet of tour no2, Upper West Side. . THE EGYPTIAN OBELISK isone of the most interesting objects, asit brings us back many centuries,having been first erected in the 1 6thcentury B. C, in Cairo, Egypt. It hasseen kings and empires rise, flourishand pass away. It was removed byAugustus Caesar to Alexandria, anderected before the temple of Caesar12 In the year 1877 it waspresented to the United States by theKhedive of Egypt, and was erectedon the present site in 1881. Thecost of removal was $102,5 76,which was contributed by WilliamVanderbilt. It is 69]/2 feet high andweighs 448,000 pounds. McCOWANS PASS TAVERNwas built on the site of a strategicpoint during the Revolutionary War,where a body of American soldiers,pursued by the British, passed September 15, 1775. The British erectedentrenchments here. November 16, 1776, a large number of Americansoldiers captured at Fort Washington, were marched through here on theirway to prison. Harlem Mere is a very charming lake. In 1814 FortClinton was erected at the top of the hi
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