The Street that Built a City is all documented in detail

is all documented in detail

this is a book about how childlike curiosity can transform ordinary days into extraordinary adventures

Enormous hemlocks hang off ledges

Publisher: Compendium

into the 20th century and finally to the present

The Street that Built a City is all documented in detailAuthor: Lowell Thing The city is New York and the street that built itor much of itis on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New Yorks harbor. Chestnut Streets first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street