Washington Square Park by the Numbers
Image: Plate 31, 1921-1923. NYPL Digital Collections. Washington Square Park was not always parkland. The land was upland meadow and a marsh supported by the Minetta waterbody. It was farmland, too. The farmers were indentured but free blacks. The land east of Minetta Waters was purchased by the City in 1797 for a potter’s field […]
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