The city of Brooklyn. Sketched & drawn on stone by C. R. Parsons. Reproduction panorama map of Brooklyn, New York, drawn on stone by Charles Richard Parsons and published by Currier & Ives in 1879. In 1645, Lady Deborah Moody led a group of religious dissenters to the area of Brooklyn and founded the town of Gravesend in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. Lady Moody was an Anabaptist who'd left England due to religious persecution. While Lady Moody was considered a dangerous woman in her time, she got along well with New Netherland governor Peter Stuyvesant, and Gravesend citizens were granted religious freedom. The Dutch West India Company authorized the village of Brooklyn in 1646, naming it after Breuckelen, a province of Utrecht. The Dutch set up their trade network here, but soon lost Brooklyn to the English. The British ruled the area until the end of the American Revolution, using New York as their military base of operations during the war and holding American patriot prisoners aboard their rotting prison-ships in Wallabout Bay. More patriot prisoners died on these ships than in all battles of the war. In the 1800s Brooklyn's East River population grew and in 1854, neighboring town Williamsburgh was annexed.
This beautifully colored map from 1879 shows street and river traffic.
Features references to the following locations:
1st Williamsburgh Presbyterian Church South 3rd St. Presbyterian Church Ferry to Grand & Roosevelt Sts. Williamsburgh Savings Bank Ross St. Presbyterian Church Kings County Fire Insurance Co. East River Bridge St. John's M. E. Church U. S. Cob Dock Catherine Ferry Hamilton Ferry Wallabout Bay Atlantic Docks Atlantic Basin Fort Columbus Castle William Gowanus Canal Red Hook Point Gravesend Bay Greenwood Cemetery John Wesley M. E. Church U. S. Naval Hospital U. S. Marine Barracks Church of the Assumption of B. V. M. St. James' Cathedral Tompkins Square City Park Lefferts Park Washington Park Prospect Park Governors Island Simpson Methodist Church Plymouth Church Clinton Ave. Congregational Church Fleet St. M. E. Church Catholic Cathedral Holy Trinity Church Tabernacle Church Church of the Pilgrims St. Ann's Church St. Peter's Church St. Paul's Church Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian Church Church of the Reconciliation Strong Place Baptist Church South Congregational Church 1st Place M. E. Church Arsenal Montaque Terrace Brooklyn Heights East New York Flatbush Ridgewood Reservoir City Jail Hospital Rink City Hall Court House County Building Academy of Music South Ferry Coney Island
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