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From: "Edith Bailes" <>
Subject: [D-Col] History of World Trade Center Site
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:36:52 -0400


The latest e-newsletter from NEHGS in Boston contains the following
paragraph (I have not yet read the article and I have no further
information):


The History of the World Trade Center Site

An article in the September 16th issue of The New Yorker entitled, "The
'Holy Ground': The early history of the World Trade Center site" will be of
interest to many, but perhaps particularly to those with early New York
Dutch ancestry. In the article, author Cathleen Schine examines the story of
those sixteen acres, beginning with the first mention of that particular
piece of land in 1625 when a corner of it was part of thirty-three acres set
aside to grow food for the colony of the Dutch West India Company.

The complete article is available online on The New Yorker's website at
www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020916fa_fact1.


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