Ground Zero by T.J. Hudson5/7/2023 ![]() It is history that has also been marred before by ravenous fires, like an inferno in 1776 that destroyed every one of the dozens of homes on the site. But the stories that stretch out in between, the stories of the men and women who occupied that land and of the way it has been worked and reworked again and again, are in many ways as big as New York itself.įrom early on, this land has been associated with bloodshed: Damen, for example, its first European owner, played a critical role in a decision by the early Dutch colonists to massacre Indians living at two nearby settlements, igniting two years of warfare. 11, 2001, dominates the nearly four centuries of history separating these two groundbreakings. The extraordinary calamity that unfolded on the site on Sept. Pataki and other dignitaries will gather for another groundbreaking: the start of the construction of the Freedom Tower, the centerpiece of the new World Trade Center. ![]() Next Sunday, on that same patch of Lower Manhattan land, Gov. ![]() ![]() ON a hilly spot, near the edge of the Hudson River shoreline, Jan Jansen Damen used a horse-drawn plow to turn up the sandy soil in the late 1630's as he carefully laid out a farm on the small chunk of the New World that he had been allotted by the Dutch West India Company. ![]()
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