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Originally Posted by mem286
How did the centre of world commerce, Wall Street, get its name?
In September of 1653, the settlers in what is now New York City felt threatened by the local Natives and by the possibility of an invasion by Oliver Cromwell’s army. For protection, they built a large protective wall that stretched a half-mile across Manhattan Island. That wall was situated on the exact spot that we now know as the financial centre of the world: Wall Street.
Do you mean the Wall street got its name more than three hundred years?
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Interesting and funny mem, as usual :)
However, I heard that the island of Manhattan was originally bought by the Dutch from the native population for 60 guilders. Consequently, the name "Wall Street" would be derived from the Dutch "walstraat", also in referral to the protective wall. These are some other examples of the influence of Dutch in New York and the US:
Harlem (Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands)
Coney Island(Konijneneiland, Rabbits Island)
Yankee (Jan-Kees, Janke, Dutch names)
The myth of Santa CLaus (Sinterklaas, St. Nicholas, the maritime patron saint of the Dutch)
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Very Interesting Indeed Mem And Saidz
Thank You So Much !!!!
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Hello everybody!
All this facts were taken from:
"Now you know" by Doug Lennox
This book is a collection of scripts originally written for radio and first heard on Sound Source Network’s syndicated radio show, “Now You Know”.
All of us invariably react to the scripted anecdotal information with, “I didn’t know that,” to which the author responds, “Well, now you know.”
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