THE   FERRY  ROAD

ON

LONG ISLAND


BY

EUGENE L. ARMBRUSTER


BROOKLYN  VILLAGE


	At the close of the Revolutionary War there were fifty-six buildings within the boundaries 
of the later village. 

	A Fire District was formed in 1801, including the area lying between the Ferry, the Ferry 
Road, Red Hook Lane, District Street (later Atlantic Street), and the East River to the Ferry 
again. 
In 1816 Brooklyn Village was incorporated, embracing the area of the former Fire District. 

	The farm lands near the Ferry Road within the village limits were then; 
the LUDLOW and the HICKS farms, between the shore and Hicks Street; 
the MIDDAGH farm, bounded by Hicks and Waring Street; 
the SWARTCOPE farm, extending to Pierrepont Street; 
the PIERREPONT and the REMSEN lands, extending to Joralemon Street, and 
the JORALEMON lands, beyond that street. 

	Just south of the HICKS farm lay Samuel JACKSON'S land, called 'Clover Hill'. The beach 
road later became known as Furman Street. Sign posts were erected along Fu1ton Street to the 
village limits in 1818. A gravel sidewalk was laid, curbstones were set up, and the houses 
were numbered in 1822 within the same limits along this street. 

	A stone walk was made from the ferry gate to Water Street, where the Steamboat Hotel stood, 
near the easterly corner, in 1825. Street lamps were proposed to be erected in 1828, at an 
estimated cost of $14.31 a lamp per annum. The street was widened in 1835 from Front Street to 
Water Street by the demolition of the buildings on the easterly side, known as the democratic side, 
the opposite side being the aristocratic side. 
On September 9th, 1848, a destructive fire started in the store of George DREW at 122 Fulton Street, 
nearly opposite Sands Street. The houses on both sides of the street, from Poplar to Pineapple 
Street, were laid in ashes, the fire raging from Henry to Washington Streets. The building line 
was now set back on both sides in the devastated section, thus widening the street here also. 

	The fire destroyed four church edifices' 
First Presbyterian, on Fulton Street; 
Universalist, corner Fulton and Pineapple Street; 
Baptist, on Nassau, 
Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church.


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