Identifier: cu31924032753067 (find matches)
Title: The stone house of Gowanus, scene of the battle of Long Island
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Fraser, Georgia
Subjects: Brooklyn. Old stone house Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776
Publisher: New York, Witter and Kintner
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE OLD WILLOW TRi:f;, WHICH STOOD Xi;ar thi; door of the stone HOUSE AS IT LOOKS TODAi. IT IS SHOWN AS A SAPLING, REACHINGABOUT THE EAVES, IX THE TWO IRINTS AND THE LITHOGRAPH ELSE-WHERE REPRODUCED. BENEATH THESE STREETS AND VACANT LOTS LIE THE REMAINDEROF TPIOSE BRA\-E SONS OF M,\R\LAND. FIELD.
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SECTION OF THE TRUNK OF THE OLD WILLOW TRILE WHICHSTOOD NEAR THE DOOR OF THE STONE HOUSE, SHOWINGPRESENT ACE AND CONDITION. AFTER THE REVOLUTION With the building of Third Street acrossthe meadows, and the consequent filling-in ofthe meadows themselves, there also becamelost to view the spring, and the brook whichflowed from it to the creek—shown plainly onthe farther side of the road in the frontispiece.Mr. Moore states that the spring is still bub-bling beneath the ground, and that the streamyet finds its way to the canal but a few feethelow the surface. Also, when the upper house was finallydemolished, the stones which composed it werethrown in to make filling, so that there remainsto-day beneath the turf of this historic area,not only the spring and brook, but the founda-tion and lower floor of the house intact, andpractically the entire material of the secondfloor and gable. The brass figures upon the gable-ends re-mained to the last. They were over two feetin height, their sup

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