Carroll Park

Court St., Smith St., bet. Carroll St. and President St.

Brooklyn

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

Brooklyn's third-oldest park is named for Charles Carroll (1737-1832), an American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence, for whom Carroll Street is also named. He served in the Continental Congress from 1776-78 and represented Maryland in the Senate from 1789-92. Carroll, whose family emigrated to the Maryland colony from Ireland, is the only Roman Catholic to have signed the Declaration of Independence.