Old Stone House of Brooklyn in Brooklyn, New York

Atlas Obscura spotlights the Old Stone House of Brooklyn, a modest stone building tied to one of the Revolutionary War's overlooked chapters. As the outlet tells it, the site sat near the Battle of Brooklyn in seventeen seventy-six, the first major clash after the Declaration of Independence, when a contingent of Maryland troops held the line to cover an American retreat and more than two hundred fifty of them were killed. The house later passed through the Cortelyou family, the surrounding land became Washington Park, and the structure even served as a clubhouse for the team that would become the Brooklyn Dodgers before burning down in eighteen ninety-seven. The Parks Department rebuilt it from the original stone, and today it stands as a small museum devoted to telling that battle's story.

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