Crown Heights and Weeksville, New York. Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly

Crown Heights and Weeksville, New York



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Crown Heights and Weeksville, New York Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly ebook
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Page: 128
ISBN: 9780738565989


The communities of Crown Heights and Weeksville are historically significant Brooklyn neighborhoods with foundations that trace back to New York's early founding. Revolutionary War skirmishes took place there, and following the emancipation of slaves in 1827, Weeksville became the site of one of New York's earliest independent African American townships. The hills of Brooklyn's Green Mountains hindered early settlement, and as a result a plethora of community institutions instead abounded in this far-flung outpost, including a penitentiary, hospitals, almshouses, old-age homes, convents, and monasteries. Traces of some of these early structures still remain. Using vintage images, ...

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