Before Central Park / / Sara Cedar Miller.
With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. Bu...
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Miller, Sara Cedar, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Before Central Park / Sara Cedar Miller. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource : 170 color figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: TOPOGRAPHY -- Introduction -- 1 The First Settlers, 1625–1664 -- 2 Along the Kingsbridge Road, 1683–1845 -- 3 The Enslaved Bensons, 1754–1846 -- 4 The War at McGowan’s Pass, 1776–1784 -- 5 Valentine Nutter, 1760–1814 -- 6 The War of 1812, 1805–1814 -- PART II: REAL ESTATE -- Introduction -- 7 Dividing Bloomingdale, 1667–1790s -- 8 Dividing Bloomingdale, 1790–1824 -- 9 Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Residents, 1825–1857 -- 10 Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Black Leaders, 1825–1857 -- 11 Dividing Harlem, 1825–1843 -- 12 Dividing Yorkville, 1785–1835 -- 13 The Receiving Reservoir, 1835–1842 -- 14 A Changing Land, 1845–1853 -- PART III: THE IDEA OF A PARK -- Introduction -- 15 The Battle of the Parks, 1844–1852 -- 16 Becoming Central Park, 1853–1856 -- 17 The First Commission, 1855–1857 -- 18 Designing Central Park, 1857–1858 -- 19 Extending the Park, 1859–1863 -- Epilogue: America’s Park -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the middle of one of the world’s densest cities, Central Park is an urban masterpiece. Designed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it is a model for city parks worldwide. But before it became Central Park, the land was the site of farms, businesses, churches, wars, and burial grounds—and home to many different kinds of New Yorkers.This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. She tells the stories of Indigenous hunters, enslaved people and enslavers, American patriots and British loyalists, the Black landowners of Seneca Village, Irish pig farmers, tavern owners, Catholic sisters, Jewish protesters, and more. Miller unveils a British fortification and camp during the Revolutionary War, a suburban retreat from the yellow fever epidemics at the turn of the nineteenth century, and the properties that a group of free Black Americans used to secure their right to vote. Tales of political chicanery, real estate speculation, cons, and scams stand alongside democratic idealism, the striving of immigrants, and powerfully human lives. Before Central Park shows how much of the history of early America is still etched upon the landscapes of Central Park today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh Smith, Elizabeth W., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.7312/mill18194 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543903 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543903/original |
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