A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography (1901) (14589558489)

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Title: A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ulmann, Albert, 1861-1948
Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York Streets -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Bibliography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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places of the Dutch officials. About the sametime the name of the city was changed from NewAmsterdam to New York, in honor of the duke. Ihave always felt sorry that this change was made,because the city was in reality a New Amsterdam,but never a New York. Fortunately, the good oldDutch name of Harlem was not disturbed, and stillserves as a reminder of its true origin. The second governor was Francis Lovelace,who, like Nicolls, had pleasing w^ays, and treated thepeople well. Still, as far as real liberty was con-cerned, they enjoyed little more than when theywere under the control of the West India Company. There is one of Lovelaces acts, however,that deserves special mention, and renders his nameworthy of remembrance. In 1672 he established apostal service between New York and Boston. InJanuary of that year the first letter carrier mountedhis horse and began his journey up the Bowery roadtoward the village of Harlem. Here his arrivalcaused great excitement, and he was treated to some
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46 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK home-brewed beer. As he passed on through thewoods of Connecticut he marked the trees so as to beable to find his way back. At Hartford he changedhorses, and after a tedious trip reached Boston. Inthe meantime a locked box was kept at a convenientplace in the town to receive letters and parcels forthe next months mail. Such was New Yorks earli-est post office. Have you any idea to what extent ithas now grown? ISTone of us could answer this question. In 1898, said the professor, it sold over threehundred millions of stamps and seventy-five millions of postal cards, and instead of a delivery once amonth, there are now nine mails a day each way be-tween ISTew York and Boston. It was through Love-laces postman that the first communication wasestablished between the colonies, and this graduallydeveloped into a bond so firm that, in after years, allEnglands strength could not break it. In 1672 war broke out between England andHolland, and one fine day two fi