Bronze plaque № 51862

Brooklyn, United States

At the Battle of Long Island, on the hill to the north of this site, the Americans had a redoubt with two guns, to guard the Old Valley Grove Road, called by the early settlers the "Porte", meaning gate-way through the hills, and which ran in front of this monument. By that road stood a white-oak, m

entioned in the patent of Governor Dongan, November 12, 1685, as a marker between Flatbush and Brooklyn. This tree was cut down and thrown across the road. With the dense woods on the south and swamps

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