Book/Printed Material The Ferry road on Long Island, Number 1
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Image 1 of Number 1 127 Copy 2 I The Ferry Road on Lon^ Island By Eugene L. Armbruster- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 2 of Number 1- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 3 of Number 1 THE FERRY ROAD ON LONG ISLAND BV EUGENE L. ARMBRUSTER/ \Mth Six Illustrations and Tliree Maps Edition limited to 300 copies, of which this is No. Price $2.00 New York 1919- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 4 of Number 1 Copyright 1 91 9 by Eugene L. Armbruster Published April 8th, 1919 XdTAr yol.A516 085 C^ APR I0|y, 9 U- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 5 of Number 1 THE CONTENTS The Ferrv Road (Illustration) 4 The Indians 5 Bruijkleen Colonic 6 The Corporation House (lUustration) 8 rhe Kings Highway 9 The Brooklyn, Jamaica and Flatbush Turnpike Road 13 The Ferries...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 7 of Number 1 THE INDIANS Fulton Street and its ferry landing play the most important part in the history of Brooklyn. Two centuries passed by be- fore Brooklyn became a city, and during that period,...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 8 of Number 1 forms the beginning of the so-called backbone of Long Island. This council place was called Bestevaer for the same reason for which these names were applied to the creek and swamp, and...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 9 of Number 1 willing to ship to the new country and cultivate the wild lands for them. The West India Company then started upon a new l)olicy. Willem Kieft was appointed governor he bought land...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 10 of Number 1 Bruijkleen Ferry. Another settlement was started in 1645 on the site of the former Indian village Maereckkaakwick, which was named Breukelen in honor of an old Dutch town. third settlement was made...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 11 of Number 1 built of Holland brick, in 1609 to one John Rodman, reserving the bell, the Kings Arms and the iron parts, belonging to the prison, for the new City Hall, which was in...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 12 of Number 1 hills. This is what the British termed the Jamaica Pass in 1776. The Indian trail had skirted the easterly side of the easternmost of the two hills and was called the Rockaway...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 13 of Number 1 Passengers were ferried over from New York, the mail coach with six, eight or more horses was escorted by a number of sol- diers on horseback and the journey was begun along...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 14 of Number 1 was relieved by De Heister and the latter advanced now against the American Hnes of outer defences which were near tlie vil- lage across the Ferry Road and its vicinity and were...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 15 of Number 1 island was completed and the British remained in full posses- sion of the island until hostilities ceased. THE BROOKLYN, JAMAICA AND FLATBUSH TURNPIKE ROAD The Brooklyn, Jamaica and Elathush Turnpike Company was...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 16 of Number 1 days and Saturdays at Coentis Slip. In 1717 two ferries were provided to run from the old Long Island landing, viz., the Nassau Ferry, carrying cattle, goods and passengers to the above...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 17 of Number 1 William Cutting obtained a franchise for a ferry to begin to run in 1814 from Old Ferry Street, Brooklyn, to Fly Market and Burling Slips, New York. The slip for the steamboat...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 18 of Number 1 the Nassau. The material used is zinc, and the casting was done in Seeley s foundry in Maujer Street the statue was painted white. The model was made by an artist of...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 19 of Number 1 Streets. The building line was now set back on both sides in the devastated section, thus widening the street here also. The fire destroyed four church edifices, the First Presbyterian, on Fulton...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 21 of Number 1 of the West India Company, erected their country residences up n the hhift along the road. Among these was C orneHus Wan Tienhoven, who built his house upon the Gouwenberg, a name...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 23 of Number 1 Bioadway, is much jilaiiier. At tliat time the Ferry Road was the main entrance to the city, as the greater part of strangers and countrymen, visiting the city, came from Long Island....- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 24 of Number 1 Twenty years later the lower parts had been converted into shops. In the rear, on Pearl Street, was the Quaker Meeting- house, the Quakers, for the greater part, residing in this neigh-...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 25 of Number 1 made a city in 1834 Brooklyn Ferry was the city, while the remainder of the large former town was still a farming district. Going up the Ferry Road we will point out...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 26 of Number 1 stood a very old frame building, in which the first post-office was located in 1818. Another very old building, one and a half stories high and built of small yellow Holland brick,...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 27 of Number 1 formed an almost straight line. This landing place became known as New Ferry and finally as Catherine Ferry and the street as New Ferry Road and later as Main Street, while the...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 28 of Number 1 ground and first operations was 193,254 dollars for removal of old walls and erection of structure and furnishing, 521,746 dollars; total, 715,000 dollars. When Henry Clay visited Brooklyn in 1839 he addressed...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 29 of Number 1 railroad, and laid out in ISof, the Bedford Road, running from the intersection of Bridge and Concord Streets to the Jamaica Turnpike, where the latter joined the Clove Road at Bedford Corners....- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 30 of Number 1 had been established along the Indian trail and a blockhouse was built in the grounds for the protection of the settlers against attacks by the Indians. The church edifice, erected in 1666,...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 31 of Number 1 Department Store. The church eihfice was replaced by a new structure in 1766 on the same site. The bell used in the first structure, a gift of the West India Company, received...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 32 of Number 1 Street, was his home. His daughter, Margaret, married Dr. John Duffield, an army surgeon, and the house became known as the Duffield house. It is believed to have been built by Carel...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 33 of Number 1 front of the place the present Long Island Rail Road Depot is said to occupy its site. Charles B. Holder erected the Three Mile House in 1854 on Fulton Avenue, near New...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 34 of Number 1 side of the Plank Road on the left jnst Ijelow Eldert Avenue, and on the right side at Hemlock Street the Plank Road within the old Brooklyn town limits having been ceded...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 35 of Number 1 THE FLATBUSH ROAD Between the junction point of the Jamaica and Flatbush Roads and the Flatbush town hue were only a few houses, none of which was of historical interest. Halfway up...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 36 of Number 1 through the park area had, of necessity, to he altered again to exckide the highway traffic from the park. The Plank Road Company laid its plank road upon the old turnpike road...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 37 of Number 1 between Midwood Street and Rutland Road, had the same fate. On the right side of the road stood a house buih in 1710, which was also destroyed on its site J. Birdsall...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 38 of Number 1 clusively until 17(i2, and was dropped altogether in 1777. The British used the schoolhouse as the principal hospital in the war it was razed in 1803. During the War of 1812-14 the...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 39 of Number 1 12,000 dollars. The Dutch lansua.sje was used exclusively here until 1792, then the afternoon services were held in English. The last Dutch sermon was delivered in 1824. When the secon l building...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919
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Image 40 of Number 1 in the Dutch language until 1776. Between the church grounds and the Court House stood a tavern and on the southern side of the Court House plot were two more taverns. The...- Contributor: Armbruster, Eugene L.
- Date: 1919