“Brooklyn historical society”

On Monday the first the class took a field trip to the Brooklyn historical society. there for the first time we were able to see the library and archives in person. and it was defiantly a sight to be seen. while there we were put into five groups. while in those five groups we were given three maps to evaluate. while  doing so i was able to learn a lot about the Brooklyn of the past and how it differed from current Brooklyn.  behind each building , resident , block and even neighborhood there was some type of story  to be told and some time of important and precious history behind them.  for one instance our group had one map. this map was a property map detailing property owned by the wealthy  pierpont family. in the map it shows a road that once lead to the pierpont family mansion and the blocks that were owned by them and what there were gonna selling off. that street that lead to the pierpont family’s mansion is now called Montague street and now no longer leads to a mansion but now to a board walk further down. through this experience as was able to see some historical architecture just by observing inside the “bhs” building and was able to learn a little about Brooklyn history.