The original Greenwich Village was a Canarsee Indian fishing village called Seppanikan (some accounts spell it Sapokanican), centered around a stream they called Manetta, meaning ‘devil water’. Later it became Minetta Brook; Minetta Street is located over the brook today. The site was later occupied by the Dutch, under whose governor Wouter Van Twiller made […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/07/early-village-1801/
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