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Following the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the increased prominence of New York as a port, warehouse buildings with brick and granite shop fronts such as those in this neighborhood came to characterize Lower Manhattan. These buildings stand on the earliest New York landfill, extended into the water in 1689. Fraunces Tavern is an informed reconstruction of the Delancey House, which was operated in the late 18th century as an inn by Samuel Fraunces, a West Indian. At the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783, George Washington said good-bye to his officers in the original Fraunces Tavern.
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