NYC Wall Street and American Finance Walking Tour

We will meet outside the entrance to the museum and discuss an overview of the both Dutch and English Colonial New York. We don't enter the museum.(10 min)

We will discuss the famous statue's history and how it came to be located where it is. Time for pictures will be allowed.(10 min)

We will walk along Beaver Street on our way to the eastern portion of Wall Street. Along the way we will discuss Native American and Colonial economies and currencies.(10 min)

This intersection is packed with history. The New York Slave Market, Buttonwood Agreement, and Tontine Coffee House all happened at or within steps of this location.(20 min)

This location was home to the New York Merchant Exchange and the first New York Customs House.(10 min)

40 and 48 Wall Street both housed two institutions that financed the building of both NYC and the country. They have founders that you will have heard of from a popular broadway show.(15 min)

The House that Morgan Built. We'll discuss the odd history of this odd building that includes among other things a Robber Barron, a bombing, and a sketchy foreign billionaire.(10 min)

More of a civic rather than financial history stop, but would be impossible to walk past without discussing.(10 min)

This location needs no introduction, but we will review it's history! A bonus to this stop is the Fearless Girl Statue directly across the street.(15 min)

Our final stop will be a church, after all every dollars says In God We Trust.(5 min)