Often described as one of several “squatters camps” of huts and shacks that were displaced by the building of Central Park, Seneca Village actually was a more permanent and well-ordered community, with three churches, a school and some inhabitants who owned their property, experts now say.
Although founded by free Blacks, it later became a multiethnic settlement that included Irish and German immigrants and possibly some American Indians, according to various historical sources.
— Associated Press
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