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Verduin ladies' hat factory, and institutions such as a girl's orphanage backing onto the canal. The Markengracht School was a public primary education school, located at Markengracht 3 from 1874 to 1933. The synagogue of the chewre Tif'eres Jisroeil was housed on the lower floor of Markengracht 5 from 1835 until 1928, when many of its members moved to the
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The journalist and writer Meijer
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Uilenburg island, and had just one main street running through it, Valkenburgerstraat. Maps from the 16th to 18th century show ship ramps along the Markengracht, the eastern boundary of the island, but the shipyards later
176:(1939–45) the municipality decided to completely renovate the old Jewish quarter. Residents were moved and the buildings demolished. The canal was filled in 1968. The whole area between Valkenburgerstraat and Rapenburgerstraat was cleared for construction of the
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552:Palmgracht
527:Houtgracht
511:Spuistraat
446:2019-07-29
429:2019-07-29
411:2019-07-29
407:(in Dutch)
392:2019-07-29
388:(in Dutch)
375:2019-07-29
347:2019-07-29
343:(in Dutch)
202:Oudeschans
90:52°22′10″N
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337:"Buurt S"
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135:Location
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