Part of This Magically Growing City Weeksville’s Growth and Disappearance, 1880–1910
By the 1880s, Weeksville was clearly integrated into the city of Brooklyn.¹ A decade earlier, in 1874, the “whole district lying east of Bedford avenue was cultivated as farmlands and market gardens,” with separate settlements surrounded by “old farm houses, with corn fields, meadows, and gardens,”...
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Published in | Brooklyn's Promised Land p. 211 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
NYU Press
07.11.2014
New York University Press |
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Summary: | By the 1880s, Weeksville was clearly integrated into the city of Brooklyn.¹ A decade earlier, in 1874, the “whole district lying east of Bedford avenue was cultivated as farmlands and market gardens,” with separate settlements surrounded by “old farm houses, with corn fields, meadows, and gardens,” noted theBrooklyn Eagle. By 1884, all that had changed. TheEaglerejoiced that Bedford, Crow Hill, Weeksville, New Brooklyn, East Brooklyn, and Brownville were all “merged into the common city, and all distinctive lines have been obliterated.” Along Fulton, Flatbush, and Atlantic Avenues, “brown stone stores and Philadelphia bricks have been erected by |
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ISBN: | 0814724159 9780814724156 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9780814744468.003.0011 |