1835 newspaper Early detailed map FRANKLIN SQUARE Lower Manhattan NEW YORK CITY

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1835 newspaper with an Early detailed map of FRANKLIN SQUARE in Lower Manhattan NEW YORK CITY
- inv # 7V-206
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Morning Courier and New York Enquirer
(NY City) dated  July 6, 1835.
This newspaper contains a front page
detailed map of FRANKLIN SQUARE in lower Manhattan, in New York City as it was in 1835
, 178 years ago- 25 years BEFORE the beginning of the Civil War.
Great display item for a present-day resident living near FRANKLIN SQUARE in Lower Manhattan.
Franklin Square
was a square in Manhattan on the intersection of
Pearl
, Dover and
Cherry
Streets. The elevated
Manhattan Railway
, built in 1877–1878, ran over Franklin Square, and a
station
was built there. On its west side were the buildings of
Harper's Publishing House
. The station and square were demolished in 1950, replaced with the Franklin Square Bridge, part of the Manhattan access to
Brooklyn Bridge
. At the same time, the block of Cherry Street nearest the square was razed and replaced with the
Alfred E. Smith Houses
.
The square was originally land owned by one Walter Franklin, a highly successful late 18th century merchant, where he kept a mansion with surrounding gardens. The house itself was used by
George Washington
as his residence the first year of his presidency.
In honor of Washington, the space was later named "St. George's Square". The space was then renamed Franklin Square in 1817, officially in honor of
Benjamin Franklin
:
Resolved that the Square now called S
t
George's Square at the Intersection of Cherry Street be hereafter named and called
Franklin Square
, as a Testimony of the high respect entertained by this Board for the Literary and Philasophical (
sic
) Character of the late Doctor Benjamin Franklin.
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