Price: $0.00
Location: Manhattan
City: New York City
Country: United States
File Type: MP3
Language: English
Time Length: 20:08
Class: Walking
Date Created: 12/4/2007
File Size: 18.55 MB
Tracks: 6
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Description: SINCE 1766 St. Paul's Chapel at Broadway and Vesey Street has been one of the best-known and most revered landmarks in Lower Manhattan, associated with events from George Washington's inauguration in 1789 to the destruction of the World Trade Center just behind it in 2001. For almost a quarter of a century in the 1800s it shared the intersection with another extremely popular, and not altogether welcome, landmark. Opposite the church, in more ways than one, was P. T. Barnum's American Museum. Today New Yorkers may think of Phineas Taylor Barnum only when the circus comes to town. But for almost 60 years he was one of the most celebrated figures in the city. He entertained and amused tens of millions here. When he died in 1891, The Washington Post called him "the most widely known American that ever lived." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/arts/09expl.html
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