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| Keywords: 1873 Beers Map of Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City - Geographicus - RichmondHill-beers-1873.jpg A scarce example of Fredrick W Beers ™ map of the town of Richmond Queens New York Published in 1873 Covers roughly from Clarenceville north to Newtown Road Detailed to the level of individual buildings and properties with land owners noted Richmond Hill was the vision Albon P Man a successfully banker who bought the Lefferts and Welling farms in 1868 Albon envisioned an elegant planned community and the architect and landscape designer Edward Richmond to design it Richmond Hill became one of the first planned residential communities in Long Island This is probably the finest atlas map of the town of Richmond Hill Queens to appear in the 19th century Prepared by Beers Comstock Cline out of their office at 36 Vesey Street New York City for inclusion in the first published atlas of Long Island the 1873 issue of Atlas of Long Island New York 1873 undated Size in 13 5 23 5 object history credit line accession number RichmondHill-beers-1873 <i>Atlas of Long Island New York From Recent Actual Surveys and Records Under the Superintendence of F W Beers </i> 1873 First Edition Geographicus-source PD-art File Richmond Hill NYPL1527298 tiff Beers maps of Long Island published in 1873 Richmond Hill Queens | ||||
