History Told in Tablets

A concise history of New York can be gleaned from
the tablets which now mark nearly all historic spots with¬
in its limits and a perusal of them is by no means the
dry reading one would suppose. We have collected them
together in some such order as may make them more
connected and therefore more interesting. Washington
bulks large of course in our history and the tablets refer¬
ring to him or to the events in which he figured pre¬
eminently are grouped first, and from them may be gath¬
ered a pretty good idea of the close and intimate connec¬
tion of our city with him and with the great events in
which he was the moving and commanding spirit. It will
be noticed also that both at the beginning and the end of
the Revolution New York plays a leading part.

These tablets also bear witness to the desire of our
forebears for the establishment and conservation of edu¬
cation and the pursuit of knowledge through letters and
inventions down to our modern technical schools, sub¬
ways and elevateds. As we read these tablets we can
travel the whole way in imagination from the little room
in the Dutch schoolmaster's home down through the years
to the Halls of Columbia and the splendid public libraries
of the city.

To Commemorate Washington

Jumel Mansion, 161 St. and Edgecomh Ave.
Washington's Headquarters. This tablet is dedicated by the
Washington Heights Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo¬
lution to the memory of General George Washington who
occupied this mansion as his headquarters from September 16th
to October 21st, 1776. Battle of Harlem Heights, September
16th. ^ Councils of war. ^ President Washington visited this
mansion accompanied by his cabinet, July, 1790. Morris House,
1758.    Jumel Mansion, 1810.    Earle Cliff, 1900.

St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway.
In commemoration of the centennial of the inauguration of
George  Washington  the  first  president  of  the  United  States,
April 30, 1889.   Erected by the Aisle Committee at services held
in St. Paul's Chapel, N. Y.

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