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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNH2_clinton-hill-historic-district_South-Lake-Tahoe-NY.html
Clinton Avenue is a grand turn-of-the-century boulevard which has remained relatively intact. When it was developed, the Avenue was distinguished by five mansions of the Pratt Family, four of them built as weddings presents for the sons of Charles…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNGZ_fort-greene-historic-district_Athens-NY.html
Fort Greene is a neighborhood with unusually consistent 19th century domestic architecture developed principally in the short span between 1855 and 1875. Fort Greene Park was created in 1848 at the instigation of poet Walt Whitman who was then the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNGY_brooklyn-city-railroad-company-building_Athens-NY.html
This handsome red brick building was built in 1860-61 as offices for the city of Brooklyn Railroad Company, one of New York City's first large-scale transit operators. By 1867, the company served 22 million passengers annually, operating twelve li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNC_cobble-hill-historic-district_Wonewoc-NY.html
Cobble Hill is an exceptionally rich district both historically and architecturally. Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill, was born at 197 Amity Street in 1854. Among the distinguished architects' work represented here is 296 Clinton Str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJS_plymouth-church-of-the-pilgrims_Schenectady-NY.html
The congregation of Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims hired Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) as their first minister, approving of his abolitionist sentiments. Beecher protested the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850, exhorting his congregation to place the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMJ3_where-the-dodgers-made-baseball-history-and-jackie-robinson-changed-america_Poolesville-NY.html
Once upon a time (1890-1957), there was a major league baseball team in Brooklyn—the Dodgers. They played their games at Ebbets Field (1913-1957) in Flatbush, where the fans and players dodged the trolley cars to get to the ballpark. But it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMIT_155-157-159-willow-street_Davison-NY.html
Built of brick laid in Flemish Bond, these three buildings, all listed in city directories prior to 1830, are among the best surviving examples of Federal Style row houses of the early nineteenth century. An underground tunnel, lighted by a skylig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMIR_church-of-the-saviour_Pearson-NY.html
This church, designed in gothic revival style by Minard Lafever, was dedicated in 1844. It is the home of the oldest Unitarian society in Brooklyn, organized in 1833. During the 1890's, new windows, the work of Louis C. Tiffany, were installed.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM3L_fort-stirling_Omaha-NY.html
This tablet marks the site of Fort Stirling. On this bluff in the spring of 1776, it formed one of a chain of redoubts built in Brooklyn opposite New York. This work fell into the hands of the British during the Battle of Long Island and was there…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM35_brooklyn-heights-historic-district_Rosholt-NY.html
Brooklyn Heights, with its elegant promenade and dramatic view of Manhattan, is one of the most uniformly preserved 19th century residential districts in New York City. It was developed soon after 1814, when Robert Fulton's first steam-powered fer…