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Clinton Street

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Clinton Street is named in honor of Dewitt Clinton. He served as Governor of New York and was one of the key forces behind the construction of the Erie Canal. Hezekiah Pierrepont reportedly proposed DeWitt Clinton's name.

DeWitt Clinton as depicted on an 1880 $1,000 bill.

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Sources:

Dikeman, J. The Brooklyn Compendium, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Common Council. 1870. https://books.google.com/books?id=jvpHAQAAMAAJ (accessed 2016)

Sherman, Herman. Red Hook Place-Names. Graduate Thesis, Brooklyn College, 1965.

Published on Jun 5, 2016. Last updated on May 19, 2018.