Download or read book Gravesend, Brooklyn written by Joseph Ditta and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the old farming days of what was once the agricultural community of Gravesend, Brooklyn and how the town has transformed into the urban neighborhood it is today. Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.