Where did Wall Street get its name?

[Stinky The Clown]

The link is to a site that cites one answer. There are other site that have other answers. I like this one best. It is in the upper left box when you get to the link.

http://www.pork.org/newsandinformation/quickfacts/didyouknow1.aspx

(The link is safe. It goes to a site operated by an organization that promotes eating pork.)

[Chemisse]

1. Sure is hard to imagine Manhatten ever being rural. - nt

[Kievan Rus]

2. I think it used to literally be along a wall in old New Amsterdam

[CatWoman]

3. correct

the History Channel did a show on it.

[knowbody0]

4. coud you tell me why they stand there clapping

like fools at opening bell? tradition?

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. It's more polite than fellating each other.

[DemoTex]

5. I prefer Bend, Oregon's Wall Street (and Bond Street, a block away).

In fact, I prefer Bend, Oregon.

[csziggy]

7. To know more about early New York City, go to the Mannahatta Project

Cook site - they started with a British Revolutionary Way map that detailed the terrain, extrapolated back to 1609 when the island was first settled by whites, and have reconstructed what the habitat, flora and fauna might have been like. Each micro-habitat is correlated with a modern block of the city.

http://themannahattaproject.org/

[csziggy]

8. Here is a map of New Amsterdam, ca. 1660, showing the wall

http://www.teachout.org/vna/map.html