The following came from the book;






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A reserach Guide to the History of the Borough of Queens
and it's neighbors. 

Put out by the Queens Tricentennial...Hewlett Library.

Beginnings of the towns of Queens


1642...Dutch charter issued (for Queens), revoked in 1645.
1645.Oct. 10...Town of Flushing (Dutch name Vlissengen).
1645...Settlement at Tew's Neck (College Point)
1652...Maspeth colony relocated further inland. Initally called 
Middleburgh later Newtown and now Elmhurst.           
1655...Town of Jamaica (Rustdorp).
1656.Mar.21...Charter for Jamaica.
1656...Springfield
1670...Settlement of Little Neck (Cornburg & Little Madnanas Neck).
1683...Queens County charted. Named for Catherine of Braganza, 
Queen Consort of Charles II, embraced all of Nassau County, 
including, Hempstaed & Oyster Bay.

1814...Jamaica became the 1st Incorporated Village on Long Island.
1821...Union Course Race Track laid out. (Woodhaven).
1825...Eclipse or Centerville Race Course laid out, east on Woodhaven Blvd.
1839...Astoria is issued a charter.
1840-50...Middle Village
1841...Blissville
1852...Laurel Hill
1854...Winfield (Lost it's identity to Woodside in the 20th c.)
1854...West Flushing (Corona).
1867...Woodside
1867...College Point incorporated. A merger of College Point, 
Flammersburg, & Strattonport.
1868-69...Glendale
1869...Richmond Hill
1869...Whitestone Incorporated.
1870.May 4...Long Island City Incorporated. (Astoria, Ravenswood, Hunters Point, 
Dutch Kills, Blissville, Middletown, Bowery Bay).
1871...Queens Village begun.
1872...West Flushing became Corona.
1872...Douglaston (originally laid out in 1835)
1882...Ozone Park laid out.
1884...Morris Park
1884-5...Hollis developed. (was East Jamaica)
1887...John Lewis Child settled in Hinsdale & founded a nursery so 
big the town changed it's name to Floral Park.
1892...Edgemere developed (as New Venice).
1897...Elmhurst... (Newtown Hill)
1898...The borough of Queens created. Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, 
and the Rockaway Peninsula.
1892...St. Alban's laid out. (was Francis Farm).
1898...Bellerose
1901...Auburdale divided from 90 acre farm of Thomas Willets.
1906...Beechhurst laid out, formerly Whitestone Landing.
1906...Forest Hills, originally White Pot.
1901...Belle Harbor
1907...Laurelton
1907-11...South Ozone Park
1908...Sub dividision of Kissena Park laid out.
1909-16...Jackson Heights
1911-12...Howard Beach
1912...Kew Gardens, originally Hopedale.
1920...Cambria Heights begun, named in 1924.
1923...Rego Park, (acronym for Real Good Construction Co.)

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