Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I.: shewing the streets as at present existing with the buildings and the intended canal and other works, 1850

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

This 1850 map of the City of Brooklyn produced by J. F Harrison and published by M. Dripps shows the Red Hook waterfront in transition.

Atlantic Dock has been built by this time but construction of the larger Erie Basin had not begun. Much of present day Red Hook is still under water.

The companies listed at Atlantic Dock are: United States Warehouses, Verplank Crane and Co, Ransom & Spelman, Lambeer & Chadborn, as well as the Hamilton Avenue Ferry and the Atlantic Hotel.

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Date:

1850

Sources:

Harrison, John F, et al. Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I.: shewing the streets as at present existing with the buildings and the intended canal and other works: also the village of Williamsburgh. [New York: Published by M. Dripps, . Phil'a Philadelphia: Lith'y of A. Kellner: H. Camp's lith'c steam press, 1850] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2013593137/ (Accessed 2018).

Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Published on May 19, 2018. Last updated on Apr 27, 2022.