Jumel

The new type of cotton (known as Jumel or Mako) was soon introduced by the authorities on an extensive scale, primarily in Lower Egypt, becoming a major cash crop that found ready markets in European industrial centers.

e. Egypt 2001

The Morris house, now known as the Jumel mansion, was half a generation old at the beginning of the Revolution.

Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

Burr himself lived in luxury with the notorious widow Eliza Jumel, the richest woman in America, in her mansion 10 blocks or so north.

The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011

He married a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Brown Jumel, in 1833, though he frittered away much of her wealth within a year.

Five People Born on February 6 | myFiveBest 2010

Felicia De Chabris, shown at left, owns this landmaked row house in the Jumel Terrace Historic District of upper Manhattan.

Historic Manhattan Row House 2010

The simple but elegant townhouses in "Steps Up (Jumel Terrace), 2002" look much as they did when built in 1882.

Families in Focus, Harlem at Night 2010

Built in 1764, the Morris-Jumel Mansion is the oldest house in New York City and is listed on the National Register of Historic Haunted Places.

Carey Dunne: Spooky Spots in Manhattan 2009

In 1810, Stephen bought Eliza a magnificent Georgian Palladian mansion in Washington Heights, now known as the Morris-Jumel Mansion, and opened to the public as a Historic House Museum of the Decorative Arts.

Guest Blogger Audrey Braver on Eliza Jumel Burr Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

You can learn more about the Morris-Jumel mansion here.

Guest Blogger Audrey Braver on Eliza Jumel Burr Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Manhattan's oldest surviving house, the only one left from before 1776, is the little known Morris-Jumel mansion at 163rd Street, now a museum.

Michael Henry Adams: Touring Harlem, Lost and Found 2009