Photo: Mannahatta Project/Wildlife Conservation Societyhttp://themannahattaproject.org/home/
The Mannahatta Project at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York city has made it possible for you to imagine what Manhattan looked like circa 1609. In a time before the steel high rises and never ending concrete, the inhabitants were mainly wildlife and the landscape consisted of forests, valleys, hills, and streams.
The website allows you to search by address or by simply clicking on the map. You can explore the wildlife, landscape, and about how the Lenape people possibly used the land before 1609. You can also compare the 1609 map with the map from today.
“The goal of the Mannahatta Project has never been to return Manhattan to its primeval state. The goal of the project is discover something new about a place we all know so well, whether we live in New York or see it on television, and, through that discovery, to alter our way of life. New York does not lack for dystopian visions of the future…. But what is the vision of the future that works? Might it lie in Mannahatta, the green heart of New York, and with a new start to history, a few hours before Hudson arrived that sunny afternoon four hundred years ago?”
- from Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
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