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Astoria, Queens, NY

The area now known as Astoria was originally called Hallet’s Cove, after its first landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1659 with his wife, Elizabeth Fones.

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Astoria, New York, USA* - Jamaica Ave.
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Astoria, New York, USA* - Ninth Avenue, showing Public School No. 6.
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Astoria, New York, USA* - Academy Street, Astoria, L.I., N.Y.
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1854 - Astoria
Astoria, a post-village of Queen's county, New York, on Hallett's cove, just below Hurl Gate, about 6 miles from New York city. It contains several churches and about 500 inhabitants.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
1895 - Astoria
Astoria, a former village of Queens co., N.Y., is on the East River, nearly 5 miles N.E. of Brooklyn. It now constitutes the 4th and 5th wards of Long Island City.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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