1. A Look at Five Points, Lower Manhattan, NYC
... became known as America's first slum. The Five Points, called so because of the five corners of streets that merged together within the ward; Mulberry Street, Anthony (now Worth Street), Orange (now Baxter Street), Little Water Street (no longer in existence) and Cross (now park street). George G. Foster (Sixth Ward Map)1 Walking Down Mulberry Street, which is the only street converging ... Points, the carved clay tobacco pipes tell us that politics and nativism highly defined where a person and family resided within the strata. In 1990 a brick cistern was excavated at 22 Orange Street ...
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