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Collect Pond
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Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond, was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the mai
A 1798 watercolor of Collect Pond. Bayard's Mount, a 110-foot (34 m) hillock, is in the left foreground. Prior to being levelled around 1811 it was lo
A 1798 watercolor of Collect Pond. Bayard's Mount, a 110-foot (34 m) hillock, is in the left foreground. Prior to being levelled around 1811 it was located near the current intersection of Mott and Grand Streets. New York City, which then extended to a stockade which ran approximately north–southeast from today's Chambers Street and Broadway, is visible beyond the southern shore.
John Fitch's steamboat experiment on Collect Pond
John Fitch's steamboat experiment on Collect Pond
The park in 2008, facing East
The park in 2008, facing East
The granite foundation of The Tombs uncovered during reconstruction of Collect Pond Park in early 2012
The granite foundation of The Tombs uncovered during reconstruction of Collect Pond Park in early 2012
The Tombs
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The Tombs was the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex, a municipal jail at 125 White Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was also the nickname for three previous city-run jail
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…the early 1820s. This influx reached a height in the 1840s, with large numbers of Irish Catholics fleeing the Great Famine. New York's jail, nicknamed "The Tombs", was built on Centre Street in 1838 on the site of the pond and was constructed on a huge platform of hemlock logs in an attempt to give it secure…
The North Tower of the complex, February 2013
The North Tower of the complex, February 2013
The original Egyptian Revival-style Tombs building is shown in a photograph from 1893; Leonard Street, left; Centre Street, foreground
The original Egyptian Revival-style Tombs building is shown in a photograph from 1893; Leonard Street, left; Centre Street, foreground
Artist's depiction of the wedding of John C. Colt in The Tombs, 1842
Artist's depiction of the wedding of John C. Colt in The Tombs, 1842
The "Bridge of Sighs" connecting the 1902 Tombs prison at left with the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts building, looking west from Centre Street
The "Bridge of Sighs" connecting the 1902 Tombs prison at left with the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts building, looking west from Centre Street