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The Dance Hall That Charmed Dickens in America’s First Slum

Posted on December 24, 2019February 16, 2021 by Colleen Connolly

Charles Dickens toured Five Points for a day and found only two things he liked about it. One was the pigs. Dickens described the city…

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