Abstract

In the Driftway

This article presents information on Saint Paul's churchyard in the U.S. In the churchyard are graves, some of which were dug back in the eighteenth century. Weather-worn upright stones mark most of those graves; some have horizontal slabs laid prone upon them. The eastern boundary of the churchyard is Broadway, and right beside that highway is Saint Paul's Chapel, put up in 1766, the only pre-Revolution church building still standing in New York City. It is informed that when Saint Paul's was built, Broadway at that point was little more than a lane to the country, and the building was faced west toward the churchyard-- which then ran all the way to the Hudson River-- while the back of the church was turned frigidly upon what has since become the most famous thoroughfare in the three Americas.