Before Central Park / Sara Cedar Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Sara Cedar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Central Park (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester, West Sussex : Columbia University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America's first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Topography

1. The First Settlers, 1625-1664

2. Along the Kingsbridge Road, 1683-1845

3. The Other Bensons, 1754-1846

4. The War at McGowan's Pass, 1776-1784

5. Valentine Nutter, 1760-1814

6. The War of 1812

Part II: Real Estate

7. Dividing Bloomingdale, 1667-1790s

8. Dividing Bloomingdale, 1790-1824

9. Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Residents, 1825-1857

10. Dividing Bloomingdale, Seneca Village: The Black Leaders, 1825-1857

11. Dividing Harlem, 1825-1843

12. Dividing Yorkville, 1785-1835

13. The Receiving Reservoir, 1835-1842

14. A Changing Land, 1845-1853

Part III: The Idea of a Park

15. The Battle of the Parks, 1844-1852

16. Becoming Central Park, 1853-1856

17. The First Commission, 1855-1857

18. Designing Central Park, 1857-1858

19. Extending the Park, 1859-1863

Epilogue

Afterword by Elizabeth W. Smith, President and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Sara Cedar Before Central Park

ISBN:

9780231543903

0231543905

OCLC:

1328136107