Wall Street
How did wall street got its name?
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Free-roaming hogs were famous for rampaging through the valuable
grain fields of colonial New York City farmers. The Manhattan
Island residents chose to block the troublesome hogs with a long,
permanent wall on the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan.
A street came to border this wall -- named aptly enough, Wall
Street.
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