Trivia

Where does the name Wall Street, synonymous with the world's stock market, come from?

a) From Garret D. Wall, a senator from New Jersey who lived from 1783 to 1850.

b) From the walnut tree under which the first merchants gathered in lower Manhattan.

c) Because of the wooden wall that the Dutch colonists built to defend New Amsterdam.

d) For the Wall Street Journal

ANSWER

c) The name derives from the defenses that the Dutch erected in 1653 to defend their colony from English invaders and natives.