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orchard_joseph_1749 [2026/03/04 19:30] – [Pinpointing the Manhattan land and house] tielmessorchard_joseph_1749 [2026/03/04 20:09] (current) – [Pinpointing the Manhattan land and house] tielmess
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 It has been quite hard tracking down exact details, as most accounts jump from De Lancey straight to Henry Brockholst Livingston - the latter having built his property on the corner of W.90th and Riverside. Yet, as can be seen by the above maps, the Orchard property was probably located on the south-side of W.88th. It has been quite hard tracking down exact details, as most accounts jump from De Lancey straight to Henry Brockholst Livingston - the latter having built his property on the corner of W.90th and Riverside. Yet, as can be seen by the above maps, the Orchard property was probably located on the south-side of W.88th.
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 +Business Insider article of June 2017 [[https://www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-nyc-farmland-photos-2017-6|Incredible photos of New York City when it was covered in farmland]], by Leanna Garfield.
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 +Building the Grid: From Paper to Street, Block and Lot, [[https://thegreatestgrid.mcny.org/greatest-grid/opening-streets/43|Farm House at 84th Street]]. Brennan Farm House, 84th and Broadway, 1879: "This image documents the intersection of West 84th Street and Broadway as it appeared in 1879. In the 1840s, the writer Edgar Allan Poe and his family rented a room at Patrick and Mary Brennan’s farmhouse, which is likely where he wrote his famous poem “The Raven.”..."
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