The Street that Built a City along the banks of the

along the banks of the Hudson River

In the 19th century it began producing paper from straw and manila tissue

and aesthetic sensibility that underlies them

connecting the Atlantic with the American heartland via the Great Lakes

Foreword: Kevin Avery

The Street that Built a City along the banks of theAuthor: Lowell Thing The city is New York and the street that built itor much of itis on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New Yorks harbor. Chestnut Streets first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street