McGown's Pass and Vicinity

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Excerpt from McGown's Pass and Vicinity: A Sketch of the Most Interesting Scenic and Historic Section of Central Park in the City of New York Central Park of New York City is the most famous city park in America. From both the scenic and historic standpoints, the most interesting section of the park is the zone lying between the latitude of 106th street and 110th street, which was added to the Park in 1863. At a meeting held in May, 1863, the Commissioners of Central Park formally declared that this addition "gives completeness to the territorial area of the Park, contains its finest natural scenery and will be regarded as one of the achievements of the Board that will stand as a memorial of its judgment, of its integrity of purpose, and of its persevering determination in the accomplishment of a great public benefit, " - words which have lost none of the force of truthfulness in the forty-two years which have elapsed since they were written. The foresight which has preserved in its natural condition the rugged heights in the northern part of the Park has also fortunately saved from the obliterating advance of modern improvement some interesting vestiges of stirring events in the two wars with Great Britain. To assist in the identification of these sites and to recall something of the history of McGown's Pass and vicinity, the following pages have been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.