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Name: Establishment of Battery Park (Manhattan)

Type: Event

Start: 1856 AD

End: 1856 AD

Parent: Coastline Changes

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Icon Establishment of Battery Park (Manhattan)

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The Battery Park of Manhattan, New York, was mostly created on land reclamated from the sea.

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  • January 1856: Battery Park, in New York, was mostly created by landfill starting from 1855, using earth from street-widening projects in Lower Manhattan which united Castle Garden's island with the "mainland" of Manhattan.

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