Image: 1827 Williamsburg Map

Description: Map of the Village of Williamsburgh, Kings County; As laid out by the Commissioners, appointed by the Legislature in 1827. Reduced from the large Map in the possession of the Trustees of the Village. Surveyed by D. Ewin. New York, Engraved & Published by H. McDowell, 1833. The Bushwick Creek, which originally separated Williamsburg from Greenpoint, has since been filled in. Today, much of the filled in land along Bushwick Creek makes up McCarren Park. Bushwick Inlet still exists near N 13th and N 14th Streets. Streets names on the map and their modern day names: Turnpike Road to Jamaica => Metropolitan Ave Water Street => River Street First Street => Kent Ave Second Street => Wythe Ave Third Street => Berry Street Fourth Street => Bedford Ave Fifth Street => Driggs Ave Sixth Street => Roebling Street Seventh Street => Havemeyer Street Eighth Street => Marcy Ave Ninth Street => Rodney Street Tenth Street => Keap Street
Title: 1827 Williamsburg Map
Credit: scanned from original
Author: H. McDowell
Permission: public domain
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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