Identifier: wallstreetguide00jlmc (find matches)
Title: Wall Street guide /
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: J.L. McLean & Co.
Subjects: Stock exchanges
Publisher: New York: J.L. McLean
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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WALL STREET, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING SUB-TREASURY, ANDTRINITY OHIIRCH AT ITS HEAD. WALL STREET GUIDE WALL STREET. Who has not heard of Wall Street? The veryname carries a meaning with it to the four cornersof the country, and while no doubt all of our readersknow that Wall Street applies to the financial dis- was to build a protecting wall or stockade (see pic-ture) across Manhattan Island, near the present siteof Wall Street. This stockade was for the purposeof protecting the inhabitants of the new village fromsurprise by the Indians. This wall, or fortification,gave the name to the present well-known street,
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THE WALL OR STOCKADE FROM WHICH WALL STREET DERIVED ITS NAME. trict of not only New York City, but the westerncontinent, how few can tell how the name originated,or, in other words, why this financial centre shouldbe known as Wall Street. Nearly three centuriesago New York—or what was then known as NewAmsterdam—was settled by a small colony of Hol-landers, and almost one of their first official acts which, with Lombard Street in London, are two ofthe greatest financial thoroughfares in the world. In New Yorks colonial days the Town Hall wasin Wall Street, where the Sub-Treasury of the UnitedStates now stands, which, by the way, succeededCongress Hall, built for the meeting of the firstCongress, on the balcony of which General Wash- 4 WALL STREET GUIDE. ington was inaugurated as the first President of theUnited States, in 1789. In the early days of theFederal Government, New York began its career as agreat seaport and business city of the country, andall the principal banks were lowallstreetguide00jlmc

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