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For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan , it was the main New York City water supply system for the growing city. The former pond became the site of a jail and is now a city park, Collect Pond Park, which includes a pond evocative of its former status. A stream flowed north out of the pond and then west through a salt marsh which, after being drained, became a meadow by the name of "Lispenard Meadows" to the Hudson River , while another stream issued from the southeastern part of the pond in an easterly direction to the East River. The southwestern shore of Collect Pond was the site of a Native American settlement known as Werpoes.

Mill Rock is located at Hell Gate , formerly an infamously treacherous area for ships to pass. The island was originally two smaller islands when William Hallet bought them from the local tribes in This fortification was part of a chain of blockhouses that was intended to defend New York Harbor and protect the passage into Long Island Sound against the British Navy. It was, most likely, the most forceful explosion in New York City's history at the time; it was felt as far away as Princeton, New Jersey. There is a dock on the southern shore of the island but it has not been open to the public since the s, when there were public events, and it has since been allowed to return to its state of shrubbery.

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