Bergen Beach, Brooklyn
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Bergen Beach is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on a peninsula abutting Jamaica Bay in the southeastern portion of the borough, and is bordered by M
Carousel of the former Bergen Beach Amusement Park in 1905
Historic image of the Bergen House
Boardwalk of Bergen Beach, circa 1905
Marina in Bergen Beach
Hans Hansen Bergen
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Hans Hansen Bergen was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and one of the few from Scandinavia. He was a native of Bergen, Norway. Hans Hansen Bergen was a shipwright wh
Bergen Beach, Brooklyn
…originally an island. The Canarsie Indians who occupied the area referred to it as Winnipague. The island was renamed Bergen Island for early settler Hans Hansen Bergen. From 1896 to 1919, Percy G. Williams and Thomas Adams operated an amusement park in the area. Bergen Beach was connected to the rest of Brooklyn via…
Women's Bryan League flyer from 1899 for fundraiser organized by Emelie C. Brewster at Bergen Beach for William Jennings Bryan
Mosaic tile for a Bergen Street Subway Station in Brooklyn
A Bergen homestead, built in 1662 in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn and owned by John C. Bergen, pictured here c. 1905.