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(rshsdepot) Bull's Head
Ok, here is a historical mystery (at least to me)
In an amazing 1856 New York Times article on ferries (amazing because almost every ferry route is included. This just happens to be
the year when the ferry to Cavalry Cemetery was running, and it only ran two years, all the routes were leased, many had just begun,
even the Weehawken to 42nd Street was proposed.....)
And the latter is why I write this historical mystery...They are discussing the reason for the need for a Weehawken-West 42nd Street
ferry route.
"...There is another ferry between the foot of Spring street and Fort Lee, the lease of which is held by J. H. Youmans...
Still another is projected between Weehawken and Forty-second street, New-York, more especially for the convenience of conveying
cattle across to Bull's Head..."
[NY Times April 23, 1856]
They then go on to discuss the recent 1854 lease of a Chambers Street to Pavonia, Jersey City ferry franchise.......
Where was Bull's Head? Manhattan or New Jersey?
Thanks,
Paul
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