A home geography of New York city . 4th avenues. In 1892 this part of GROWTH AND PROSPERITY UNDER THE ENGLISH IGl the city was no longer suitable, and the present historic site onMorningside Heights was selected. Columbia College, the old KingsCollege, is now Columbia University. The story of Columbia Univer-sity buildings is the story ofthe growth of the west sideof Manhattan northward. Trinity Church, — theFirst English Church inNew York The English people heldtheir church services in aDutch church until they hada church of thek own. Partof the money needed to buildthe new English church was
A home geography of New York city . 4th avenues. In 1892 this part of GROWTH AND PROSPERITY UNDER THE ENGLISH IGl the city was no longer suitable, and the present historic site onMorningside Heights was selected. Columbia College, the old KingsCollege, is now Columbia University. The story of Columbia Univer-sity buildings is the story ofthe growth of the west sideof Manhattan northward. Trinity Church, — theFirst English Church inNew York The English people heldtheir church services in aDutch church until they hada church of thek own. Partof the money needed to buildthe new English church wascollected in New York andpart in England. The gov-ernment helped the TrinityChurch Society by giving alarge farm called QueenAnnes farm. This Englishfarm had been two Dutchfarms, and it extended fromFulton street to Christopher ^kinity Chukch street, and from Broadway to the Hudson river. The first churchwas destroyed by the fire that occurred the night before NathanHale was put to death. A new church was built on the same site,. 162 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY and nearly fifty years afterward it was torn down because it wasunsafe. Tlien the present Trinity church was built. The Trinity Church Society gave away or sold some of its land,but it still owns a large portion of what was the old farm and isthe richest church society in the United States. In colonial timesthe society gave some land to Kings College. In 1820 it soldsome of the farm to the Public School Society for a new free schoolat the corner of Hudson and Grove streets. That part of the citywas then called Greenwich village, so Public School No. 3 nowstands in the old Greenwich village, and on part of the land onceknown as Queen Annes farm. Trinity churchyard is the oldest one in our city. When NewYork belonged to the Dutch this churchyard was many feet lowerthan it is at present. A great many officers and soldiers who diedwhile in prison during the Seven Years war for independence wereburied in Trinity churchy
Size: 1216px × 2054px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidhomegeographyofn00stra
