Canal in Broad Street - 17th Century
The lower part of the old canal Canal in present-day Broad Street, looking towards the East River. Etching by W.H. Wallace. Source: New York Public Library.
This etching seems to represent the canal during the British rule of the City. The author William Henry Wallace (1838-1929) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was a writer, landscape painter and etcher, member of the Brooklyn Arts and Sciences.
This canal (Heere Graft) was built in 1646, by the Dutch, and filled in 1676, by the British. During this piriod, the canal emptied out into the East River. Its narrower continuation, Prinzen Gracht, ran from Beaver Street to south of Exchange.
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Canal in Broad Street - 17th Century