ON THIS DAY IN 1846 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Some workmen while digging yesterday afternoon upon the beautiful grounds recently laid out for a rural mansion, on Fulton avenue, by Samuel E. Johnson, disinterred several relics of our revolutionary struggle. They consisted of an army axe, a shoe buckle, a camp fork and three metal buttons with the figures ‘33’ upon two of them and ‘42’ upon the other. It is probable that on this spot there was an encampment of those two British regiments. These relics excited no little interest on account of having been found upon the anniversary of the Battle of Long Island, an account of which appeared in the Eagle of yesterday.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1905 , the Eagle reported, “There is excellent authority for the statement that President Roo

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