Historic Long Island (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wilson, Rufus Rockwell) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Historic Long Island The history of Long Island is in epitome the history of the nation. Dutch and English joined in its settlement, and ruled it by turn during the pre-Revolutionary period. Through the French and Indian wars the island contributed largely to the colonial forces, both in men and in provisions; and it bore its part and a worthy one in the struggle for independence. No less honorable was its record in the second war with England and in the contest for the preservation of the Union. But the distinctive fact in the island´s history is that it has been from the first a land of homes and home-makers. The Dutch and English pioneers had no other thought than to rear in a new land new hearthstones for themselves and their children, and so strong and abiding speedily became their love of the pleasant country to possess which they had crossed the seas, that all over the island one will find men and women still holding the rich acres whereon their ancestors settled upward of two centuries ago. Later times and changed conditions have brought in another and larger army of home-makers. The Long Island railroad was built to Jamaica in 1836, and four years later extended to Hicksville and thence to Greenport. Since that time the growth of the island in population and wealth has been steady and some sections marvelously rapid. The chain of hills on the north side is rapidly being covered with the homes of a refined population; but the greatest transformation has been wrought along the south shore, and where, thirty years ago, was nothing save a wilderness of uninhabited salt meadows and sand beaches and pine and scrub oak plains, is now a chain of thriving and prosperous villages, and of splendid homes and hotels. Set opposite the great city of which its westward reaches now form a part, the islands past shapes its future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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