“Who is Cord Meyer?” I yanked the correct question out of my hat in the Woodhaven Historical Society’s first Queens Jeopardy! the other night by correctly identifying who renamed the old Queens town of Newtown as Elmhurst. Of course I ultimately lost the game! Newtown, founded in the mid-1600s after its colonists had fled from Native […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2016/12/lost-elmhurst-carnegie-library/
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