Li Emerges
Essay by people • March 13, 2012 • Essay • 462 Words (2 Pages) • 1,343 Views
Transportation
* Steamboats
o Brooklyn Heights (1819), first American suburb to steamboat ferry
o Robert Fulton, perfected the steamboat, 1815, Clairmont
o Cornelius Vanderbilt, steamboat, and railroad baron
* LIRR
* Agriculture for market
o Grain
o 80% of the population
* Whaling
* Fishing/ Shellfishing
Population
* 1790: 32,454 (3224 in brookhaven)
* NYC 1790: 33,111
* Kings: 4,495
* 1860: 100,666 (9,923 in Brookhaven)
* NYC: 813,669
* Kings: 279,122
* Irish, Scottish/English (pre-ellis island), Germans (1848), 2nd wave of Dutch 1950s
* Brooklyn, c.1819- Steady growth but non-waterfront areas maintain rural identity (especially Flatbush, Bedford)
* New York/Brooklyn, 1851: the city connections with LI grow as the city grows
Industries
* Horse Dung
o In the 1850's, 100,000 to 200,000 horses lived in the city. A typical horse produced from 22 of manure and about a quart of urine a day
o Problem Solved: Manure was scooped up and given to LI farmers for fertilizer
* Oysters
o NY's most popular 19th century snack
o Great South Bay (especially around Blue Point) became the center of oyster industry, 1850s
* Cordwood
o Enormous numbers of hickory and oak trees in Suffolk County supply NYC for fuel- by 1815, 200,000 cords of wood (a cord of wood is 4' x 4' x 8' long)
o Decimates the Pine Barrens
* WHALING: key part of the 19th Century economy
o Muti-ethnic crews
o Made enormous $$$$ for Cold Spring Harbor and Sag Harbor, and, to lesser degrees, Greenport and Southampton...
o Starts on shore...but gradually, boats go out deeper and deeper (eventually, half a world away)
o Oil
o Fashion
o Household Objects
o Hard Job/hard labor
* Gross- aweful smells, bloody
* LIRR:
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