0 1,000 Feet Proteus Gowanus Bernard Ratzer’s Survey map of the Gowanus Canal area for the British Colonial Administration, shows the glacial moraine ridges left by receding prehistoric glaciers. Brouwer, a German mercenary working for the Dutch in Brazil, built one of the first Tidal Mills in America here on the Proteus site in 1645. 1766
1. Feet Proteus Gowanus 01,000 1766Bernard Ratzers Survey map
of the Gowanus Canal area for the British Colonial
Administration,shows the glacial moraine ridges left by receding
prehistoric glaciers. Brouwer, a German mercenaryworking for the
Dutch in Brazil, built one of the first Tidal Mills in America here
on the Proteus site in 1645.