The Street that Built a City It played a key role

It played a key role in the settling of the New World and the outcome of the Revolutionary War

from 1823 to 1963

Publisher: Compendium

witness the cataclysmic flood that cascaded through the valley at the end of the Ice Age as a great ice dam broke and a gigantic wall of water swept down the valley

The Street that Built a City It played a key roleAuthor: Lowell Thing The city is New York and the street that built itor much of itis on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New Yorks harbor. Chestnut Streets first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street