Everything about Seneca Village totally explained
Seneca Village was a small village on the island of
Manhattan,
New York founded by
free blacks in 1825. The village was the first significant community of
African American property owners on Manhattan, and also came to be inhabited by several other
minorities, including
Irish and
German immigrants, and perhaps
Native Americans as well. The village was located on about five acres between where 82nd and 89th Streets and 7th and 8th Avenues would now intersect, an area now covered by
Central Park.
In 1855, a New York State
Census found that Seneca Village had 264 residents. The village had three churches, a school, and several cemeteries. . At this time in
New York City's history, most of the city's population lived below 14th Street, and the region above 59th Street was only sporadically developed and was semi-rural or rural in character. In 1857, all private property within Seneca Village was acquired by the city government through
eminent domain, for the purpose of constructing Central Park. The village was razed for park construction. In August 2005, the buried remains of the village were the subject of archaeological investigation.
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