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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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his great section has be-come a melting pot, and people from every quarter ofthe globe are being made over to look like Americansand let us hope to be Americans of the real kind. The old town of Newtown is still there but the namehas disappeared and the more fragrant and aristocraticone of Elmhurst takes its place. Once upon a time thisold town was famous for its splendid apples. The New-town pippin was known all over the world and wasshipped to every port. Newtown pippins are still grownand their name will never be changed, and herein lies thesurety that the name and fame of the old town will beperpetuated. We are apt to think of the first settlers as people whocame to a land entirely primeval and untouched by thefoot of man and that they made their way through un-inhabited areas until they found a place where they couldsettle. But the fact is that long before those new comerssaw the commanding heights of Brooklyn or the longnarrow strip of land between two waters we now call ( 206 )
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OF OLD NEW YORK Manhattan, there were well trodde-n paths, stretchingfrom the shores away inland and reaching by the mostconvenient way the points of vantage in the hinterland.How long those paths had been there we do not know,but we do know they had been trodden by generations ofIndians, and although only foot paths and in some placesmere trails they were invaluable to the early settlers asguides to the most suitable lands where they might estab-lish themselves permanently. It is quite natural therefore to suppose that the firstcomers availed themselves of such help as those immatureroadways offered, and we may conclude that the path upthe hill from the ferry to where Borough Hall now iswas soon a definitely formed road and the first on allLong Island. In their further settlement of our end ofthe Island the settlers made use of those paths and intime they became the common roads of intercommunica-tion between the various towns and villages of Colonialdays. The road of first importanc

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