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out the Myrtle Avenue stage line, ran horse cars to the end of the road. In 1842 there were between Broadway and Fort Greene and Myrtle Avenue and the Jamaica Turnpike only thrity houses. A single house was standing on the south side of Myrtle Avenue on the corner of Classon Avenue. There were 1,679 persons in the village, (Wallabout) all living north of Myrtle Avenue." (Wallabout Village came into existence about 1830.) [Phrase in Margin:] By 1855 the village had not greatly expanded there were then a few scattered houses outside these limits.

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p 162

"Myrtle avenue had not then been opened, (1816) although its germ existed in a little street called Myrtle Street, which extended only a short distance eastwardly from the main road (Fulton Street).

A little way from this Myrtle street, on the north side of the road, and elevated several feet above its level, ... was Nicholas Rouse's grocery

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store and garden. Nicholas was a German, who had been for many years a resident of the village and was much respected. His whole yard was covered by a fine grapevine, which bore abundantly, and the citizens of Brooklyn were wont, during the summer months, to resort there in great numbers to partake of his excellent [mead?] and cakes; while in autumn they sought the greatful [sic.] shades of his arbor, to enjoy the delicious grapes and the fine prospect, (view) there being, at that time, no houses between his place and the Wallabout."

p 240

"An old road was also traveled from what was called Cripplebrush passing the old stone house of Mr. JJ Rappalye, and thence through Nostrand Ave and Bedford Ave to the Jamaica turnpike. From about the year 1832 streets were laid out from time to time, not all at once, and in 1835 Myrtle Avenue was graded and paved from the City Hall to Nostrand Avenue, which afforded a new facility of entrance from the Wallabout