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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKK4_evacuation-site-fulton-landing_Berne-NY.html
Near this location, the American army retreated across the East River to Manhattan after its disastrous defeat in the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776.
Badly outnumbered and cornered by British troops under the command of General William H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKJZ_denyses-ferry-gravesend-bay_Moweaqua-NY.html
At the time of the American Revolution, travelers from Long Island boarded a ferry that took them across the Narrows to Staten Island near this point. In the summer of 1776, a British fleet commanded by Admiral Lord Richard Howe sailed up through …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9I_new-utrecht-liberty-pole_Greenville-NY.html
This Liberty Pole marks the spot over which the American flag first waved in the town of New Utrecht. The original pole was erected by our forefathers at the Evacuation of the British, November 1783, amid the firing of cannons and demonstration of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5Z_hendrick-i-lott-house_Houston-NY.html
The Hendrick I. Lott House is one of fourteen remaining Dutch Colonial farmhouses in Kings County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a New York City Landmark. The house remains structurally sound and vir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5H_wyckoff-bennett-homestead_Barboursville-NY.html
The best preserved, and considered by many the most beautiful example of Dutch Colonial architecture in Brooklyn, this dwelling is believed to have been built by Henry and Abraham Wyckoff, descendants of Pieter Wyckoff who came to this country in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5E_new-utrecht-reformed-church_Goshen-NY.html
The walls of this building, constructed in early Gothic revival style in 1828, contain stones taken from a predecessor church built in 1700 as the first house of worship for the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Utrecht, organized in 1677. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5D_dutch-reformed-church-of-flatlands_Goshen-NY.html
Constructed in 1848 in late Federal style, this edifice occupies the site of the original octagonal shingled church built in 1663 and rebuilt in 1794. The congregation was formed in 1654 by the Rev. Johannes Megapolensis, pastor of the Collegiate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5C_the-battle-of-brooklyn_Goshen-NY.html
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the survifal of that new nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK5B_the-battle-of-brooklyn_Goshen-NY.html
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed to the world that thirteen British colonies had joined together to create a new nation: the United States of America. Here in Brooklyn, only two months later, the survival of that new nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK33_milestone-park_Appomattox-NY.html
This park is at the location of the oldest existing milestone in New York City. The New Ultrecht milestone was placed here in approximately 1741 under the reign of George II. The stone, which served as a directional post to travelers, stood at the…