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Only in New York! Snapshot from a bus, en route from New Utrecht to Flatlands
via Kings Highway. (That’s an elevated subway station in the background
over the restaurant marquees.)
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The Flatlands Reformed
Church is probably the most attractive relic of the 18th Century
Dutch in Brooklyn.
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Marker detailing the
history of Kings Highway. Although few retained the moniker, all roads built by the crown were
“the King’s highway.”
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The third church (1848)
constructed on the site since 1665.
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The beautiful graveyard
is open to the public.
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Our hero’s
aunt Betje Dordrecht Hampers, and her family, would have worshipped here in
the original octagonal structure.
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Tombstone of a noted
clergyman … who would have been a close colleague of (the fictional)
Dominie Van Voort.
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Many tombstones here are
inscribed in Dutch.
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View of residential
Flatlands across Kings Highway from the church.
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The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum is located
off Kings Highway, 2 miles NE of Flatlands D.R. Church—thus, out of “town.”
Open to the public!
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The original portion of the Wyckoff farmhouse—the oldest
surviving structure in New York City—was built circa 1652 and enlarged around 1740. It was restored in 1982.
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Historical detail photo.
Note the cedar shingles and the “Dutch door.”
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