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History of Foley Square - 1700 to 1800

New York, New York

Relief

Artist

Andrews/LeFevre Studios

Description

1700-1800: The Dutch presence and Dutch West India Company, Powder House for the city`s gun powder, gallows built in 1742 during the so called Negro Plot Conspiracy to hang eighteen Blacks and three Whites, and Bridewell city prison for American revolutionaries during British occupation.

Installed, 2000

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