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And yet, New York remained in the moment of its dawn. In 1790, it remained the second city in population in the United States, with only 33,131 to Philadelphia’s 54,388. New York nearly doubled by 1800 to 60,515, but even then it was hardly a grand affair. In 1811, one visiting Scotsman dismissed it as an “overgrown sea-port village.”
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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