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Map of the Five Points Neighborhood, 1855-67

In 1854 the names of the original streets, Cross, Anthony, Orange, and Little Water, which had formed the Five Points intersection (marked with a star) from which the neighborhood derived its name were changed to Park, Worth, Baxter and Mission [...]

Map Showing the Relative Sizes of Ireland and New York State

This map shows the relative sizes of Ireland (superimposed in red outline) and New York state (blue outline). New York is far larger in area, with 54,475 square miles as opposed to Ireland's 32,599 square miles.

Item Type: Map
Map of Free and Slave States in 1856

This map identifies which states and territories of the United States allowed slavery and which did not in 1856, five years before the start of the Civil War. The slaveholding border states included Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and [...]

Tags: Civil War
Item Type: Map
Plans for Central Park (1858)

This 1857 map depicts plans for Central Park by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The red rectangle denotes the area of Seneca Village, which spanned 82nd street to 89th street in New York City. Founded in 1825, Seneca [...]

Item Type: Map

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