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The Long Island community of Westbury was once a small town farming neighborhood . While Brooklyn and other boroughs mushroomed into urban giants, the population of peaceful Westbury hovered at less than one thousand. Then the Wall Street tycoons arrived--and everything changed. In this new book, author Richard Panchyk narrates the dramatic transformation of this once-agricultural hamlet, founded in 1670 by Quakers. Little more than a country town until the first two decades of the twentieth century, Westbury changed overnight as Manhattan's financial titans embarked on a frenzied pace of building and development--mansions, resorts, even a racetrack and an airport--catapulting the community into modern times. Westbury was the site of one of the country's first auto races, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup. Its train stop witnessed the nation's first ever train-car collision. And in 1927, Charles Lindbergh bedded down in Westbury before taking off on his flight into history. Let Panchyk whisk you through the region's occasionally contentious, frequently dramatic, and always entertaining growth and development in A History of Westbury, Long Island.
Excerpt from History of Ancient Westbury and Present Watertown From Its Settlement to 1907 To ask that question was but to answer it, and the first English settlement in Connecticut was made by William Holmes, and a number of Plymouth men in October 1633, at the mouth of the Farmington river at Windsor. With due respect for the rights of the Indians, Holmes and his companions purchased a tract of land, built a house thereon, fortified it and ever after maintained their right thereto. This house was framed at Plymouth and brought hither by water. It is said to have been the first house erected in Connecticut. Here we feel constrained to remark that if the policy of rendering to every man his due had controlled the actions of the discoverers and settlers of our country, the bitter ani mosities and bloodier outrages of subsequent genera tions would have been largely prevented. The first court, consisting of six men, was held in Hartford, April 26, 1636. This court looked after the common affairs of the Colony, declared war, concluded peace, and formed alliances with the Indians. These local courts continued their supervision of the civil affairs of the towns until January 14, 1639, when delegatesfrom Wethersfield, Saybrook and Windsor met in Hartford, and framed a constitution which is recorded as one of the most simple and liberal ever adopted. Later in the same year, an adjourned assembly incor porated the several towns, and vested them with power to transact local business, which action was the origin and establishment of town privilege. 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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