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Williamsburg or Williamsburgh?

dailyheights
dailyheights
edited November -1 in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Can someone explain the difference? One is the neighborhood and the other is the bank building? Did the neighborhood drop the h at one point? Thanks.

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  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg,_Brooklyn,

    the H is part of the original name of the place (named in about 1802 for the guy who surveyed it), and it went away at the time that the city of williamsburgh became part of brooklyn (1855).

    I'm not 100% sure, but i bet that the name of the bank had an H because it was first chartered in 1851, prior to the great brooklynization of billyburg.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    how bout billsburg :p.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    heh. i like that. billsburg. heh.
  • raw
    raw

    Subject: Re: Williamsburg or Williamsburgh?

    dailyheights wrote: Can someone explain the difference? One is the neighborhood and the other is the bank building? Did the neighborhood drop the h at one point? Thanks.
    Williamsburgh Library in Brooklyn's Williamsburgh neighborhood is spelled "Williamsburgh."
  • boygabriel
    boygabriel
    armchair_warrior wrote: how bout billsburg :p.
    i prefer the original German pronunciation "vil-hem-berg"

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