Historical Geographic Prologue

Lenape village Werpoes looking south at City Hall Park site

Werpoes looking east towards “Collect Pond”

Collect Pond - top right

Werpoes village - top left

CHP NE Plaza site - in field near bottom of photo

Overlay map of Werpoes, ponds and nearby terrain with early 19th century street grid to City Hall, including NE Plaza and proposed Street Co-naming sites east of City Hall two blocks southeast of the village.

Lower Manhattan before Dutch colonization was a forest, with fresh water, Lenape trails and Lenape village Werpoes.

CHP site is likely just south of the center of map where the trail kinks a little (where future Park Row merges with Broadway?).

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