Actually CP was a real-estate scheme to take land off the market and raise prices. The working class was opposed. Doug <<<<<>>>>>
among other things, park designer frederick law olmstead and landscape architect calvert vaux, who persuaded olmstead to take on the project, used forcible evictions to rid the site of hundreds of squatters..
one joseph weydemeyer, financial contributor to newspaper for which k marx was editor, communist league member, and german '1848er' who fled to u.s., was a surveyor on central park construction... mh
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