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Eymund Diegel map: Red Hook streams ponds place names

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

2016 draft map created by Eymund Diegel, based on his research describing Red Hook streams, ponds, tide mills up to around 1850. The base map is the Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey. Captions are derived from Stile's comprehensive...

Tags: Bernard Ratzer, Brouwer, Bull Creek, Coeties, Eymund Diegel, Gin, Lucquer, map, mill, mill pond, nature, ponds, Ratzer's Map, Seabring, streams, tide mill, Van Dyke

Subjects: Water Management, Changing Shoreline

"Plan of the Town of Brooklyn and Part of Long Island"
Ratzer/Stiles 1767 map.

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

A version of Bernard Ratzer’s map made by him for the British Government in 1767. A copy of this map appears in Henry R. Stiles’, 1867 book A History of Brooklyn . According to www.geographicus.com, the map was drawn by Henry’s brother Edward...

Tags: Bernard Ratzer, map, mill, mill pond, Ratzer's Map, Stiles

Subjects: Peoples--British

Seabring Street

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

The 1766 map of Brooklyn by British military officer Bernard Ratzer, shows that Isaac Seabring owned a property and a mill in Red Hook, roughly at the corner of present day Hicks and Huntington Streets.

Tags: Bernard Ratzer, Issac Seabring

Eymund Diegel map: Red Hook streams ponds place names

"Plan of the Town of Brooklyn and Part of Long Island" Ratzer/Stiles 1767 map.

Seabring Street

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"Plan of the Town of Brooklyn and Part of Long Island"
Ratzer/Stiles 1767 map.