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Subject: [NYKINGS] Bowronville
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:12:05 EDT
My thanks to all of you who responded to my query on Bowronville.
With the help of , I found several mentions of
Bowronville as you can see in the last sentence of the following paragraph as
well as several street name changes in Bowronville, Brooklyn. It seems
Bowronville is in the Bushwick /Ridgewood area and Brownsville is south of
Bedford/Stuyvesant:
(http://www.google.com/search?q=bowronville&btnG=Google+Search)
1851. The Second Reformed Dutch Church of South Bushwick (Eastern District),
on Bushwick Avenue, opposite the junction of Lafayette Avenue and Broadway,
was organized by the North Classis of Long Island in November 1851, under A.
J. Johnson, as elder, and William Ten Eyck as deacon. Services were first
held in the Methodist church at the Cross roads, until the completion of the
present edifice, upon six lots of land presented by the brothers Andrew and
Abraham Stockholm, Messrs. Frederick Byrd and Mr. Debevoies, being also
active workers. Its cornerstone was laid on the 6th of September, 1852, and
the building was dedicated in the following February, the sermon on the
occasion being preached by the Rev. Win. H. Campbell, D.D. The edifice, which
cost about $5,900 of which $2,000 was obtained from the Collegiate Church of
New York, is a very neat and substantial frame, seventy-five feet long by
fifty-five feet wide, accommodating about five hundred persons, and costing
about $9,000, and is situated in a new neighborhood (known as Bowronville),
which is building up very handsomely, and which, in the course of a few years
must become one of the most desirable locations in Brooklyn.
Mike Mattes
El Paso, TX
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