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Pioneers of Vanderveer Park

Pioneers of Vanderveer Park

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0359096557
ISBN13: 9780359096558
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Mar 29 2019
Pages: 410
Weight: 2.23
Height: 1.06 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is the true story of two people, Conrad and Augusta, who began their lives in Germany when the Civil War was raging in America and Otto von Bismarck was leading Prussia into wars with Denmark, France, and Austria. Conrad and Augusta lived the immigrants dream of finding opportunity in a foreign land and culture?pioneers. Conrad and Augusta were among the leaders in the transformation of the farmlands in the middle of Brooklyn, New York into neighborhoods filled with homes. This development, whose name and whereabouts were familiar to all who once lived in Brooklyn, is now all but forgotten?Vanderveer Park. Vanderveer Park and its sister-development, Bay View Heights, included most of the area between Cortelyou Road and Kings Highway and between Flatbush Avenue and Troy Avenue. Conrad was the builder of the Cortelyou Club and many of the homes throughout this area.

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