It ran, I think, almost directly along North Washington Square, and, at one point, formed part of the "Inland Road to Greenwich" which was the scene of Revolutionary manoeuvres.
Monument Lane was so called because at the end of it (about Fifteenth Street and Eighth Avenue) stood a statue of the much-adored English general, James Wolfe, whose storming of the Heights of Abraham in the Battle of Quebec, and attendant defeat of the Marquis de Montcalm, have made him illustrious in history.

After the Revolution, the statue disappeared, and there is no record of its fate.
With the passing of the old Potter's Field, came many changes.

Mayor Stephen Allen (later lost on the _Henry Clay_), made signal civic improvements; he levelled, drained and added three and a half acres to the field.

In short, it became a valuable tract of ground.

Society, driven steadily upward from Bowling Green, Bond Street, Bleecker and the rest, had commenced to settle down in the country.