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Edwin G. Burrows

Edwin G. Burrows Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Edwin G. Burrows

Birthname

Educated At: University Of Michigan, Columbia University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Historian

Total quotes: 2

“It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a ‘public house’ or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were ‘of good life & Conversation and fit to keep such a house.”

— Edwin G. Burrows, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Tagged: New York City, History, Public House, Lower Manhattan, Gangs of New York

“To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe.”

— Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Tagged: NYC

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