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Title: Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Richardson, Darby.
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Publisher: (Flushing, N.Y.) : Darby Richardson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ll those), but because of the peoplein it. I think the best and the most friendly and the most kindly andhelpful people in the world live right here in Flushing. And a town isonly what its people are. You dont find that Flushing is made up ofmere commuters, who rush home and eat and sleep, and then rush backto New York. You will find it filled with big-souled and big-heartedmen and women who want you to be part of Flushings life, who are inclubs and societies and organizations for helpfulness and happiness, andwho will welcome you and make you one with them. You will find thatall the men and women with brains and talent and wealth and good-willare in these little conspiracies, and, before you know how it has hap-pened, some of these friends that are my friends will have welcomed youand you will be part of Flushing, and you will think, as I do, that thebest part of Flushing is the people of Flushing. People come to Flushing to live in houses; they stay because theylove Flushing itself.
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Armory, Company I, Tenth Regiment, National Guard HISTORICAL FLUSHING Bp Rev. HENRY D. WALLER THE original Township of Flushing comprised, up to the time ofconsolidation into Greater New York, the Villages of Flushing,College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston and Little Neck.Each had a separate government, and all were represented by Trustees atmeeting of the Flushing Town Board. Flushing was originally written Vlissingen; but it was at a very earlydate Anglicized. The town was settled in 1645 by a company of English-men, who came from New England and who had received a patent fromthe Dutch Colony of New Netherland. The town, thus incorporated,was Dutch in all respects but one. Its name, its laws, the titles of itsofficials, and its allegiance were Dutch; but the inhabitants were English-men. At no subsequent period did the Dutch element among the in-habitants have any considerable influence in determining the generalcharacter of the community, though Flushing is often, erroneous

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