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Collect Pond
The Collect Pond — or Fresh Water Pond〔, p. 250.〕 — was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown, lower Manhattan in New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main water supply 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.
==Pond description==
The pond occupied approximately and as deep as .〔 Fed by an underground spring, it was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at , the tallest hill in lower Manhattan) to the northeast and ''Kalck Hoek'' (Dutch for ''Chalk Point'', named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants) to the west.
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 the Collect Pond was the site of a Native American settlement known as ''Werpoes''. A small band of Munsee, the northernmost division of the Lenape, occupied the site until the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was established. It is possible that members of this band were the participants in the famed sale of Manhattan (Manahatta) to the Dutch.
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