ADDENDA, 1912
(From a theatre programme of "The African Company")
THEATRE in Mercer Street
In the rear of the 1 Mile Stone Broadway
The African Co., etc.
Harper's Magazine, June-Nov., 1889, p. 133
As historians know nothing of a theatre here, this was probably a company of negro amateurs who played in New York in 1820-21. Old residents remember a milestone in front of old St. Thomas' Church, Broadway and Houston Street.
In tearing down an old residence in Greenwich at 102 Christopher Street in 1910 a block of brown stone 2½ feet long, 10 inches wide and 9 inches thick was discovered (now at 380 Bleecker Street) bearing the inscription, "9 Miles from Camp," and at the bottom some undecipherable figures. It is doubtful whether "Camp" refers to a camp of Revolutionary days or to some popular roadhouse in upper Manhattan.
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