By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Construction of The Atlantic Dock - a massive, man-made harbor for deep water ships, began on June 3, 1841. The erection of stout stone warehouses and towering grain elevators that could handle products coming down the Erie Canal began in 1844 and...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
A building boom was expected for Red Hook Point in 1851. New streets were being constructed and a cotton mill was planned, to take advantage of the large amounts of cotton already being shipped through Brooklyn. A large number of shanties were...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Merchant Stores had a large hydraulic press that it used to compress cotton bales. In 1891, people complained that when "exhaust steam was blown off it made a noise that sounded like a cross between the bellow of a bull and the scream of a tiger...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Cotton was king in Red Hook from the 1870s to 1910. In 1901 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle more than once used the headline "Much Cotton in Red Hook" to describe how "the cotton docks and warehouses at Red Hook and the German-American stores at the foot...
