Name: _____________________ Date: _______________ A Walk Through History at The Battery Follow the blue trail marked on the map below. As you stop at each numbered area, read the story and explore the prompts in the corresponding numbered N EW S T T T RE E E T EE T E section of this packet. You can write notes on your thoughts T for each prompt, or STR S STRE I RE C HARGI N G R T B U L L S REE MORR VE T SCU L P T U R E E A B RO AD discuss it with your companions.BE Please rememberON to follow all social T W O S T T E R S RE Wall Street B ROA D W A Y S B T E City Hall RO T A O N E A 13 minute walk D W A Y W HITE HAL L W U .S. M distancing guidelines while at The Battery. We hope youO O R E S T Renjoy E your visit! POST OFFIC E B B O W L I N G South Street Y E A R G R EEN T Seaport W O 15 minute walk 3 3 KE I A W FDR DRIVE H W HITEH A L L B IT T 2 W A TER / D EHA E E STREET EXIT 1 L L D W STR A M U SEU M OF THE E 3 9 N T A E T E 9 /11 Memorial and Museum AMERI C A N I NDIAN W HITEHAL L Y 10 minute walk U S C U S T OM HOU S E T O N E SPLA STRE E B ROA D W A Y 1 9 0 7 E S E I GR T E R S T R E R T R A O N E RR E O E E T W N EW Y O R K M EN E P L AZA S RIV Information Ferries W I STR TH C H U AST Restrooms Handicap access E S O N E O T S DGE S TATE RE N E T H E R L A N D S I Food Bikeway T STREET E M E MOR I A L BR E T P T A XI S G O V ERN ORS T A N T D ISL AND F ERR Y 0 25 50 100 200 I R T STRE 3 O N E B A TTER Y E B A T T E R Y MARIT I M E H E A D S L J E W I S H S P ARK P L AZA B U I L D I N G 1 9 0 9 Feet H OUS E TT RE T E R C E NTE NAR Y A AR T TA E SAIN T F L A G P O L E 0 25 50 E S T S T R P E LIZABETH P E E Meters A N N SET O N T ES SHRINE E E T P TA N E W A M S T E R D A M T S C R 1 7 S TAT E P A V I L ION B W EE PETER MINUI T A E A Y STREE T T TE S T S T R E L A T W PLAZA R E Y P K I W P ARK B Y E 1 7 O P S T S T R E E Y S T E R R U T H B A TTE R Y E BUS N C U E T LI D D PLA C E A E T S T TT R A O S TATEN ISLAND P B N R I T L A E E S F ERR Y T YA P L S T H E WES VE R 4 W H ITE HAL L EB B A T T E R Y R F E R R Y T E R M I NAL T O V A L P B A T T E R Y T T L AR P S T R A U RBA N F A R M K B B 1 A T T E R Y B E I K E W E A Y T G I O V A N N I D A V E R R A Z Z A N O RITZ T I F F A N Y & P L A Y SCA P E C ARL T O N C O . FDN ( I N D E S I G N ) H O T E L 2 WOO D L A N D G A R D E N S Museum of Jewish Heritage Skyscraper Museum L A B Y R I N T H P A R K S E A G L A S S T Battery Park City 7 O FFIC E E D C A R OUS E L E 1 G U A R B A T TER Y PL A C E T H E T H S T R 5 B A T TER Y AS UT O MAR I N E C C A S T L E C L I NTO N W O O D L A N D SO N A T IONAL MONUM E N T F L A G P O L E K O R E A N W A R T E S 1 8 1 1 TA V E T E R A N S S ROB E R T F M E MOR I A L D T H E E W A G N E R J R I MMI G R A N T S P A R K NIT MONUM E N T B A T T E R Y U G A R D E N S R E S T A U R A N T T ICKETS E A S T C O A S T S TAT U E O F L I B E R T Y M E MOR I A L P I E R & E LLI S I S L A N D A 1 8 8 6 G B OSQUE R A E R F O U N T A I N M D E E C E M N 6 R A N B S E M B R O R E M A F O F N N S C D E E G A R N C E 1 R E M E M B R A R D E N S O F A Y G A G W A M E R I C A N G A N M E R C H A N T 2 6 MAR I N E G A W A Y N 3 G A N G M E MOR I A L G W A Y 4 A Y 5 G A N G W G A N G W A Y G A N G W A Y N Y W P A T I E C I T Y S H R I PPER T AX C L I S N D F ERR IE EL LI S I S L A LIB E R T Y & S T A TUE O F 1 By the Labyrinth: Archaeological records suggest that the first humans to come to this part of the world arrived after the last ice age, around 10,000 years ago. Multiple native tribes lived in the surrounding area for thousands of years, and the Lenape tribe was the first nation to live on this island, calling it Manahatta. The island was an ecological wonder at the time, due to its location at the meeting point of two rivers, supporting a wide variety of plant and animal life. The Lenape people hunted and gathered plant materials to feed their community and provide them with the tools, clothing, and materials that they used every day. They used young sapling trees to construct homes, covering them with bark and animal skins and leaving openings in the roof to allow the smoke from cooking fires to escape. They traded materials with other First Nations in the surrounding area, including the Haudenosaunee, the Mohicans, and the Shinnecock. Today, most Lenape tribe members live in Delaware and New Jersey, honoring their cultural traditions while making use of modern conveniences. Some of the plants you see in this area of the park are the same species that existed here thousands of years ago. Can you find all four of the following native plants in this area of the park? If it’s winter, look for evidence of their fallen leaves. SHADBUSH MILKWEED ELDERBERRY OAK When this tree bloomed with The Lenape used the tough The Lenape people ate the The Lenape people ground white blossoms in late spring, inner bark of the milkweed berries of this large shrub oak acorns into flour for it signalled to the Lenape plants to wind into twine, and made medicine from cooking, and used the long,’ that the shad were swimming making strong rope and the bark of the plant to treat tall trunks of these trees upriver and it was time to fish. fishing nets. cuts and wounds. to make canoes for fishing Additionally, the berries are and travel. edible when ripe. 2 Verrazzano Statue: Giovanni da Verrazzano was an Italian who sailed on an exploratory journey in 1524 under the patronage of the French king, Francis I.