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The Story
The area now known as Kew Gardens Hills, was originally settled by the Dutch in 1628 who called the area Salt Marsh Valley[1]. At that time, the area was an impassable swamp known as the Head of Vleigh [2]. By the 1700s, the area was livable and owned by William Furman, a farmer. In 1820, he sold the land to Timothy Jackson who expanded the farming area as a breeding ground for horses. The area remained farmland well in into the late 1800s. In the 1930s, a man by the name of Abraham Wolosoff bought this farmland and created a community of small homes and apartments. He was the man who named the area Kew Gardens Hills; a name based off of his love for the Kew Gardens areas of Queens. [3]
The People
The original settlers of the new Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood were German, Irish, and Italians who were leaving Brooklyn and Manhattan in search of a new place to live [4].
A Map of the Area
This map depicts Kew Gardens Hills and its surroundings circa 1876. The red and orange words identify streets and places that are in existence today.
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Notes
- ↑ "Kew Gardens Hills." Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association. Ed. Tina Morales. <http://www.kghca.org/index.htm>.
- ↑ "Kew Gardens Hills." SunSentinel.com. <http://xml.sun-sentinel.com/topic/ny-historytown-hist000n,0,7470151.story>
- ↑ "Kew Gardens Hills." Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association. Ed. Tina Morales. <http://www.kghca.org/index.htm>.
- ↑ "Community Information." Queens Library. <queenslibrary.org>.
- ↑ http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/kg.hills/kghills.html