Washington's New York
Discover how George Washington was a true New Yorker in peace and war from enrolling his step-son at Columbia, attending plays, liberating New York City from British control, and launching the first year of his presidential administration in the Big Apple. We will visit City Hall where George Washington had the Declaration of Independence read in 1776 and the site of Federal Hall where he took the presidential oath in 1789.
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The Financial District
Discover how Wall Street evolved from a stockade protecting the infant colony of New Amsterdam into the world's greatest financial center. Find out Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Kennedy contributed to the evolution of the New York Stock Exchange. Some of the places we can visit are the Museum of Financial History, Federal Hall, New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, and J. P. Morgan.
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