Seneca Village was a small village on the island of Manhattan, New York, founded by free blacks. Seneca Village existed from 1825 through 1857, when it was torn down for the construction of Central Park.
The village was the first significant community of African American property owners on Manhattan, and also came to be inhabited by several other minorities, including English, Irish and German immigrants. The village was located on about 5 acres (20,000 m2) between where 82nd and 89th Streets and 7th and 8th Avenues would now intersect, an area now covered by Central Park.
Read more about Seneca Village: Name Origin, Mixing Pot, Institutional Buildings, 1855 Census, Central Park Destruction, Existing Evidence, Sign Erected, 2011 Excavation
Famous quotes containing the word village:
“Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)