1. A Look at Five Points, Lower Manhattan, NYC
... that breaks strips down Manhattan to its' bare bones of the early seventeenth century. Eric Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, bought historical maps of what the British soldiers saw surrounding them during their occupation of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. Sanderson fell in love with the simplicity of the landscape and decided he wanted others to "fall in love with New York's original landscape (Eric Sanderson, National ... treated in the area during the time; Cholera, Yellow Fever, Small Pox and Malaria were common infectious diseas...
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- Approx Pages: 14
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate