Posts Tagged ‘New York History’

1894: The Irish Cat, the Spanish Duke, and New York Mayor Gilroy

Posted: 16th January 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Feline Mascots
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Miss Bridget Cork, a dark gray Irish cat, arrived at New York City Hall on February 14, 1894.

1894: The Hobo Horse and Morgan Phillips, the Old Circus Man of Cherry Street

Posted: 30th December 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Horse Tales
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Morgan L. Phillips was an old circus man who lived in a tent at 40 Cherry Street in New York City with his wife, their grandson, a horse, and some dogs. Discover his story, and explore the history of 40 Cherry Street.

1894: The Hobo Horse and Gypsy of New York’s Cherry Street, Part I

Posted: 21st December 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Horse Tales
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Morgan L. Phillips was an old circus man who lived with his wife, a horse, and a few dogs in a canvas tent in an empty lot at 40 Cherry Street in New York City in 1893-94.

1912: The Cat Lady of Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, and the Mysterious Thanksgiving Day Fire

Posted: 13th November 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Ladies
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In one of a cluster of six shabby little frame houses at Hoyt and Livingston Streets, Brooklyn, stubbornly holding their own there against the huge overshadowing business buildings reared all about them, there lived until yesterday a hermit spinster, Miss Octavia Fredericks. The neighborhood was full of stories of her, many of them purely legendary […]

1865: The P.T. Barnum Museum and Menagerie at the Corner of Broadway and Ann Street, Part I

Posted: 3rd October 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Animal Stories
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When most of us hear the name P.T. Barnum, we automatically think of the circus and “The Greatest Show on Earth.” But many years before P.T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus made its debut in 1870 — and 40 years before he partnered with James A. Bailey – Phineas Taylor Barnum rose to fame with a very large collection of artificial and natural curiosities from around the world that he displayed at his American Museum on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City.

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