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headway to Broadway, the line having been completed by November 1854. The cars were running through to Broadway in the early 70's... In the 80's the line was extended to Ridgewood... The cars of this line were of a blue color and carried a blue light.

Armbruster cont. p 42

In 1824 the Village of Brooklyn purchased a tract of 19 1/2 acres part of which were used for burying grounds, in the Wallabout section, through which Myrtle ave was to pass. The remaining large portion of the land was used for the new Poor House Farm. About 1825 the Wallabout section contained ten farm houses and a few dwellings in a hamlet, the district consisting of fields and woods.

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p 31

The water supply was largely derived from wooden pumps set commonly at street corners at intervals of about four blocks. About 1850 the drinking water was provided by the pumps. On the opposite side of the street was a large cistern, kept full from these pumps by the city authorities to fight fires. Every family had its ceder [sic.] pail and cocoanut [sic.] dipper for drinking water from the pumps and cistern water for household purposes. Livery stables in the olden days were very rough built wooden structures, the horses were led to the nearest street pump for their drinking water.

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Armbruster p 249

There was an elevation on the south side of Myrtle Avenue, from a point near the Franklin hotel to Lewis Avenue. On part of this hill stood the Bliss house, in earlier days known as Archibald Bliss House. Next to this was an open space with quite a few trees. To the south west of this open space on Vernon Avenue, near Sumner Avenue was Kolb's brewery. People from Dutchtown came to this place on Sundays with their lunch and bought a sixtel or quarter of Kolb's products, according to the number of people in the party. Kolb also used the vats in the old brewery on the South side of Myrtle avenue between Nostrand and Marcy Avenues, very close to the corner of Nostrand Avenue. One Foster had run the latter place as a Weiss Beer Brewery. He killed a man with a car hook and paid the penalty for this crime on the gallows in New York City. The brewery covered three lots and a man of the name of Fetten ran a bar room in part of the building for some years. On the north side of Myrtle Avenue was Boerum's farm and the boys took many pears from the big tree near the barn, but they never went near Hyer's farm, where the dummy was, as they were afraid of his gun.

The Myrtle Avenue elevated before it was renovated in 1958: The station houses were heated in winter by pot bellied coal stoves, circled by a square metal pipe rail to guard people against brushing the hot sides. The coal was kept in a slanted top wooden storage box at the end of the platform and carried from there to the stove in an old fashioned bucket. The stove put out a great deal of heat, so that you alternated between roasting