Here is presented the Manhattan Project. This project aims to put the settlement history of the island of Manhattan in a sense. There over the years built buildings are to be tracked in order to make the development of building on this island understand.
was first made an inventory of what can be encountered at the time of structures. But not only interested, also what went down.
The map above shows us a map of northern Manhattan. It should reflect Construction Equipment, in the independence struggle of the Americans played a role. We see that the landscape is still empty settlements. Only individual farms are the simplest of ways. A path leads north to Kingsbridge. This is now the Broadway north of Manhattan. The Kingsbridge has become a crossroads because there is no waterway has to be bridged at this point.
With the stock in the north of the island was begun. When I read about this part of Manhattan, I realized that through a branch duct Marble Hill was separated from the island. Earlier this part of Manhattan was surrounded by a winding river. As the ship's passage was not without danger, they dug themselves a shorter route from the Harlem Creek to the Hudson River. Had the original course of the waterway to Marble Hill around not filled in, this part of the north of Manhattan would have remained an island.
However, it has operated land reclamation and filled the river to Marble Hill around, get around to building for school buildings. Elsewhere superblock as huge buildings of public housing to the area to be poured sensibly. Unfortunately, by this construction, the beauty of the landscape of northern Manhattan were destroyed in good parts.
The documentation of the buildings of Manhattan was the city sections that follow to Marble Hill on the island of Manhattan from north to south on each other. Marble Hill is now on the mainland, followed by Inwood, which is now in the far north of the island of Manhattan. Then was the documentation of the buildings of Fort George, etc. ".
Since the beginning of the settlement was held by the Europeans in the south of the island of Manhattan, also a documentation of the buildings was developed, which aimed to document as quickly as possible what is the beginning of settlement activity to understand.
land fills through the southern tip of Manhattan has changed a lot. On the curved street layout of today's downtown, however, can still see where were the first houses of the earliest settlement. However, had read much about these processes of change in order to identify the space in the city. Thus, a former fort is now in the area of the island. It used to stand on a small island off the land mass of the southern tip of Manhattan.
The landscape of the elongated island is sometimes very dramatically. You have guessed the original state of Manhattan, when you walk through the remaining virgin forest in the north of the island.
had previously been living here some of the native population when the Europeans arrived. Archaeologists have been able to find elsewhere on the island settlement traces of the Indian population. One occasionally finds Cave in rock crashes. One of the caves in the area of the current Inwood Hill Park is to have been an Indian shrine.
Man all this will have to investigate what can be detected from the earliest evidence of settlements on the island to finally come to today's construction equipment. These want to be understood.
The Manhattan project is therefore a very exciting research project which allows us to penetrate into the different building cultures. It will be interesting, as reflected in documents can find this.
Karl-Ludwig Diehl
Baugeschichte
Important note:
The huge public library of New York, which has several special libraries, has
a collection of historical maps of urban areas of New York. These can range from users of the library will be photographed. Those who want high-quality photos of plans from the City of New York, she can buy at the public library.
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