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Seller: PatriotTours
(Patriot Tours, Inc.)
Seller Description:
Patriot Tours, Inc. specializes in daily historic tours that focus on specific eras of New York City's past. We have been conducting tours since Spring, 2005. Meticulous research is done for all of our tours. Every event is true and every person is real. Stories are taken from newspaper and eyewitness accounts, as well as historic texts. Our research is ongoing so that we may continue to refine and improve our tours.
(Our guides are licensed by the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs and have passed the required Sightseeing Guide Exam.)
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Activity Information:
Activity Description
Take a trip through the most historic district in New York City! Visit a city torn apart by ethnic, economic and political differences, a city on the verge of its own civil war.
NYC's ONLY Civil War Era Tour!
- Learn about New York's meteoric rise to the wealthiest port city in the world and what the city's gold traders did to get kicked out of the NY Stock Exchange.
- Hear about NYC's changing role in the Civil War, from opposition to President Lincoln's policies to supporting and financing the war effort.
- Visit historic sites like Delmonics's Restaurant, Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel.
- We'll discuss the abolitionist publisher of the NY Tribune, Horace Greeley; Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, the pastor who displayed John Brown's chains to his congregation at the Broadway Tabernacle; Daniel Sickles, the first to claim temporary insanity as a defense of murder, and many more..
You'll visit some of the city's most historic landmarks: Tweed Courthouse, City Hall, NY Stock Exchange, Federal Hall National Monument, Merchant's Exchange , Delmonico's and India House.
As we walk we'll imagine the city as it was in the 1850's and 1860's, a city filled with contradictions, whose promise of success drew masses of poor immigrants and wealthy investors alike.
We'll add to the realism of your experience by using samples of newspapers, political cartoons, drawings and photographs.
Meeting Location:
Downtown - Near Battery Park (New York, NY)
(Exact meeting location details will be provided immediately upon purchase of tickets.)
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