Thomas L. Lawrence

Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur Anson Blake 1789-1868 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur is far more than a financial and commercial biography of Anson Blake 1789-1868. It provides many details of local history, not only of South Brooklyn (today's Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Boerum Hill and Gowanus) before the Civil War, but of New York City's economic history, including Anson Blake's speculation in Wall Street area lands and buildings. Blake also speculated in Upstate New York's Black River Canal region of Oneida, Hamilton and Herkimer counties where Anson Blake wanted a railroad to be built through his lots. Many interesting illustrations and photographs depict facets of Manhattan and Brooklyn history including Blake's early land and building speculation enterprises in South Brooklyn adjacent to the terminus of the original Long Island Railroad, and the Atlantic Street and Hamilton Avenue ferries. This book describes New York's and Brooklyn's history during the second quarter of America's 19th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977275080
• Artikelnr.: 72352871

Autorenporträt

Thomas L. Lawrence is a local Brooklyn history buff. He began his study of pre-Civil War Brooklyn in 1990 while residing in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He became aware of Anson Blake as a lot owner listed on an 1847 property assessment map. Curious to find out more about Blake, he began research at the Brooklyn Historical Society, later undertaking in-depth investigations at New York Public Library Research Division in Manhattan. He is a graduate of New York's Union Theological Seminary and the clinical residency program at New York's Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute. For forty years he has conducted a practice of individual, group, couple and family therapy in both Brooklyn and Staten Island.