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Carpet Cleaning Navy YardIn order for us to better service all our valued customers, we now offer Carpet Cleaning in Navy Yard (The Navy Yard area of Brooklyn).We understand our customers' needs for a quick response service and we always strive to meet those demands. So when it comes times for your next carpet cleaning, rug cleaning, rug repair, carpet re-stretching, couch and sofa cleaning in Navy Yard, make sure to call us first. Let us show you why we are the number one choice in Brooklyn. A little History of Navy Yard 1625 Sarah Rapelje, allegedly the first European born in the Nieuw Netherlands colony is delivered on this bay in the area of Brooklyn known by the Lenape Indians as "Rennegachonk". 1637 Walloon Jansen de Rapelje purchases 335 acres of Rennegachonk territory from Dutch West India Trading Company. The land is renamed Waal Boght, from the dutch meaning either “Bend in the River” or “Bay of Walloons”. This later becomes Wallabout Bay. 1776-1783 NEW YORK CITY’S OCCUPATION AT THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION As many as 11,000 die on the British prisoner ships moored off Wallabout Bay, the most infamous being the Jersey, where American soldiers, merchants and traders are imprisoned for disobeying the British embargo. 1781 John Jackson and his brothers purchase from Cornelius Remsen a parcel of the Rapelje land where they build the area’s original shipyard on the muddy marshlands. 1798 The US Government commissions from Jackson the 28-gun frigate USS Adams. She serves with distinction, sailing to the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France, and later patrolling the East Coast to protect American commerce. Finally, she is burnt by her crew to avoid British capture in the War of 1812. 1801 NEW GOVERNMENT MAKES THE LAND PURCHASE The United States government purchases Jackson’s land for $40,000. 1806 Lieutenant Jonathan Thorn, US Navy, takes command of the United States Navy Yard at New York, working under verbal orders from the Secretary of the Navy Yard. He is Commandant for one year only, and in 1811 is killed with his crew on John Jacob Astor's Tonquin near Vancouver Island. 1814 Congress allocates funds for the construction of the United States’ first steam-powered warship, the Fulton Steam Frigate, also known as Demologos and Fulton the First. Though her trials prove steam technology sound, the Fulton tours only once around New York Harbor and is then after kept at the Yard as a receiving ship. 1820 The Ohio, first ship constructed at the Yard and put to use, is launched. 1824 The Government purchases from Sarah Schenck the 25 acres of property on which the Naval Hospital now stands. 1826-1827 The Yard’s existence is jeopardized during Congressional debates, some arguing that its draft is too shallow, making access difficult. 1829 The Fulton Steam Frigate suffers complete destruction in an accidental explosion that kills 29 men. 1833 Commodore Matthew C. Perry is instrumental in founding the Naval Lyceum to "promote the diffusion of useful knowledge, foster a spirit of harmony and unity of interests in the service, cement the links which unite us as professional brethren." The first professional naval publication, the Naval Magazine is published here in 1836; frequent contributors being Matthew C. Perry and James Fennimore Cooper. |
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