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supposed catastrophe. Many wanted to ascend the ladders reared by the fireman and had there not been a strong force of police on hand there would have been serious trouble. There was one fight, but it did not last long. Seven or eight colored men set upon a white man and had just got him down when four Central Office detectives charged the crowd. Clubs played merrily on the heads of the colored men for a few seconds and then all was quiet again.

Traffic was not resumed on the elevated until this afternoon, as the task of replacing the Myrtle avenue engine on the track proved a most difficult one.

9.20.69

Brooklyn Eastern District by Armbruster

completed in 1928 published in 1941 Brooklyn Public Lib.

p. 247

In the early days Anson Powell's stages ran from Myrtle and Nostrand Avenues to Fulton Ferry. Husted and Kendall's stages ran from the Franklin Hotel on Broadway via Myrtle Avenue to Fulton Ferry. Seymour L. Husted, the stage operator and Alderman of the Seventh Ward had a fur factory at the Wallabout. In 1840 he resided on Myrtle Avenue between Kent and Franklin Avenues. He subsequently erected his residence upon grounds

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fronting on Myrtle Avenue from Clinton to Waverly Avenues. This building was taken down in 1913 to make room for apartment houses.

p 246 Some of this material is covered on page 20-21 of first book.

Myrtle Avenue was opened in 1835 from Fulton Street to Cripplebush Road (Nostrand ave?). The hill at Fort Green was dug through an elevation of eight feet remained on either side of the road. In 1839 the road was extended to Division Avenue, the present Broadway. In 1854 the Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica Plank road was opened on January 1st, 5 1/2 miles in length from Broadway to the Jamaica Plank Road. The toll gate was located at Cypress Avenue. The road was seventy feet in width. There was an earth track in the center nine feet wide, and on either side a planked track also nine feet wide... The Myrtle Avenue Plank Road, running from Broadway through Ridgewood was opened in 1854. It shortened the distance from Brooklyn City Hall to Jamaica 1 1/3 miles.

p 247

The Myrtle Avenue car line operated in July 1854 sixteen cars from Fulton Ferry to the depot, the old stage coach stables on Myrtle Avenue at Marcy Avenue. Three transfer cars ran for many years on a ten minutes