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    What part of Brooklyn, NY, possibly owes its name to a city in the Netherlands of which the name means "Count's Beach"?

    Question #108141. Asked by flem-ish. (Aug 20 09 12:04 AM)


    serpa

    		Gravesend (pronounced "GRAVES end", not "grave SEND") is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA.
    The derivation of the name is unclear. Some speculate that it was named after the English seaport of Gravesend, Kent.[1] An alternative explanation suggests that it was named by Willem Kieft for the Dutch settlement of "'s- Gravesande", which means "Count's Beach" or "Count's Sand".[2]

    Gravesend was one of the original towns in the Dutch colony of New Netherland and became one of the six original towns of Kings County in colonial New York.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend,_Brooklyn


    Aug 20 09, 12:58 AM

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