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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gravesend, Brooklyn |
 | | Navesink may refer to: Navesink, New Jersey, a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey Navesink River, an estuary in Monmouth County, New Jersey This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share... |
 | | Gravesend Town encompassed 7000 acres in southern Kings County, including the entire island of Coney Island, which was originally the town's common lands on the Atlantic Ocean, divided up, as was the town itself, into 41 parcels for the original patentees. |
 | | The oldest is that on Brooklyn (or Columbia) Heights, west of City Hall Park, rising abruptly from the river to a height of from 70 to 100 ft., and commanding a delightful view of the harbour. |
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