History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917 is a book by historian Alfred Henry Bellot (22 December 1882 Birmingham, England – 19 May 1965 Miami, Florida). Published in 1918, the work provides a definitive history up to that time of the communities on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens County, New York City and the villages and hamlets which comprise what is known today as the Five Towns of Nassau County, Long Island, New York, namely Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett.[1][2] [3]
References
- ^ Bellot, Alfred Henry (1917). History of the Rockaways, From the Year 1885 to 1917 – Being a complete record and review of events of historical importance during that period in the Rockaway peninsula, comprising the villages of Hewlett, Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, Inwood, Far Rockaway, Arverne, Rockaway Beach, Belle Harbor, Neponsit and Rockaway Point. Far Rockaway: Bellot's Histories, Inc. (publisher). Retrieved May 9, 2008.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) LCCN unk82042662 (1918); LCCN 18-9519 (1918); OCLC 1046539656 (all editions). - ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (1997-03-18). "Queens Spit Tried to Be a Resort but Sank in a Hurricane". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
In 1917, Alfred H. Bellot wrote in History of the Rockaways that Hog Island, and especially the establishment run by Patrick Craig, had become the 1890's version of the Hamptons: "Many conferences of great import to New York City took place in this out-of-doors annex to Tammany Hall, and it was at this time that the village was called familiarly in certain political circles, the Irish Saratoga."
- ^ "NEW YORK CITY BEACHES: CONEY ISLAND & ROCKAWAY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY/Online Exhibition | Fall 2020/Rockaway Beach/Rockaway, Queens | c1890 – 1920" (PDF). Cooper Union.