Mott Haven, the Bronx, in Transition 1/13 The Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven, a waterfront enclave with a mix of industrial and residential properties, is seeing a … Prior to colonization in the 1630s, the Lenape people controlled and used the land. After the New York & Harlem Railroad linked the southeast Bronx to Manhattan in 1840 and Mott built his canal in 1850, Mott Haven began to flourish as an industrial center. This man-made inlet of the Harlem River penetrated as far north as 144 th Street. Known for its metal works, saw mills, and stone yards, Mott Haven’s industry expanded into the fields of piano factories, lumberyards, furniture manufacturers, and food and ice producers over the course of the nineteenth … The area that is now called Mott Haven was originally owned by the Morris family.
Richard and Lewis Morris, merchants from … As the city below grew, the area quickly developed residentially. Help us present groundbreaking exhibitions and develop educational programs about our nation's history for more than 200,000 schoolchildren annually. With oral history, we can fill some of that in. The Mott Haven Oral History project exists to record, share, and amplify the stories and analysis of Mott Haven residents. The neighborhood of Mott Haven is located in the South Bronx, and is situated on a portion of land historically referred to as Morrisania, named after the powerful Morris family who held possession of it for centuries. Along its shoreline, cranes picked up freight from barges and loaded the goods into warehouses. DONATE TODAY collections > Luce Center > View of Mott Haven, Bronx, New York Proposed in 1850 by Mott Haven founder Jordan L. Mott, it was carved out in the early 1870s. The Mott Haven Oral History project documents the history of Mott Haven through the voices of people who have lived it. Mott Haven has a big public story, and that story leaves out and covers up a lot. A small part of the larger swath of land known as Morrisania, it was purchased by Jordan Mott for his iron works in 1849.
About. We are working with and making meaning from these stories as we record them, doing this work together and in public, initially through our oral history walk …