1. A Look at Five Points, Lower Manhattan, NYC
Collect Pond Park is one of them that I am particularly interested in as it is historically known as the location of a spring fed fresh water pond that was a great source for water in the 17th to the early 19th century and later on was polluted by waste from "noxious industry" (Alyssa Loorya, Archaeologist)2. ... In my research all sources (cited at the end of the paper) with reference to Collect Pond, indicate that it was a large body of water, approximately sixty feet deep and fed by an underground fresh water spring. ... Collect Pond, being a good source of fresh water, allowed f...
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