From the Brooklyn Aerie: February 15, 2012
There is not only a Brooklyn in Michigan, but also in Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana — and in Cleveland there is a Brooklyn Heights.
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Although Abraham Lincoln never visited Brooklyn after he became president, his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, did several times when she came to New York on shopping trips during her days in the White House. Among the sites she visited here were the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Green-Wood Cemetery as well as Plymouth Church, where she heard Reverend Henry Ward Beecher preach.
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Only two players in the entire history of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in one game — Joe Adcock and Gil Hodges.