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The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) [6] as the Long Island Historical Society, with a charter from the New England Historical Society in Boston. [7] In 1985, the society changed its name to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS).
The Brooklyn Waterworks, also known as the Milburn Pumping Station, was a historic building in Freeport, Long Island.Designed by noted Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman and completed in 1890, it was described as "Long Island's most ambitious Romanesque Revival design."
John Ward Hunter (October 15, 1807 – April 16, 1900) was born in Bedford (now known as Bedford-Stuyvesant), Brooklyn and in 1875 and 1876 was Mayor of Brooklyn. 1809 – Long Island Star newspaper begins publication. [19] 1810 – Henry C. Murphy is born in Brooklyn, (1810–1882) Mayor of Brooklyn in 1842.
Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.It is bounded by the Belt Parkway to the south, Bay Parkway to the west, Avenue P to the north, and Ocean Parkway to the east.
Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). Railroad Station, Islip, Long Island, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum
At the end of the American Revolution, one in three black inhabitants in Brooklyn were enslaved, a statistic that inevitably drove a wave of activism in the years to come.
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (c. 1870).
Brooklyn lies at the southwestern end of Long Island, and the borough's western border constitutes the island's western tip. Brooklyn's water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay; the Atlantic Ocean; The Narrows, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows ...