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ON MARCH 1, 1837 SERVICE BEGAN TO HICKSVILLE
FLUSHING AVENUE STATION WAS SHOWN FOUR MILES EAST OF JAMAICA
FROM AN 1837 NEWSPAPER "BROOKLYN ADVOCATE"
BY OPENING DAY, MARCH 1 1937, DE LANCY AVENUE
IS SHOWN AND FLUSHING AVENUE IS NOT.
FROM MARCH 28 1837 NEW YORK TIMES
SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE MARCH FIRST
SCHEDULES FROM THE LONG ISLAND STAR :
JULY 31, 1837 SHOWS DE LANCEY AVENUE;
SEPTEMBER 8, 1837 SHOWS DE LANCEY AVENUE
NOVEMBER 27, 1837 SCHEDULE SHOWS BRUSHVILLE
INSTEAD OF FLUSHING AVENUE - DE LANCY AVENUE
VINCENT SEYFRIED AND WILLIAM SLADE BOTH LOCATED
BRUSHVILLE AS JUST WEST OF HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE
IN JUNE 1836 THOMAS BRUSH SOLD PROPERTY TO THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD
THE DIMENSIONS WERE: ON THE
THE PROPERTY LAY BETWEEN HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE AND "A HIGHWAY
LEADING TO THE MAIN COUNTRY ROAD" - LATER FIRST AVENUE.
IN 1847 WALT WHITMAN WROTE:
THIS 1852 QUEENS MAP SHOWS A STREET EAST OF BENNETT, FIRST AVE. WHICH BEGINS AT THE LIRR AND CROSSES JERICHO PLANK ROAD. SLADE'S FIGURES SHOW FLUSHING AVE. STATION 618 FEET EAST OF BENNETT. NOV. 1837 ARTICLE SAYS "BRUSHVILLE (FORMERLY HEWLET'S TAVERN) INSTEAD OF DELANCEY AVE." MY EARLIER THOUGHT THAT BENNETT, FIRST AVE. MIGHT HAVE BEEN DELANCEY NOW MAKES SENSE.
IN 1852 - 1856 BRUSHVILLE WAS RENAMED "QUEENS"
THIS IS AN 1860 MAP
IN 1868 THE BROOKLYN EAGLE WROTE:
BRUSHVILLE IS BETTER KNOWN AS QUEENS. IT IS A STATION ON THE LONG
ISLAND RAILROAD, ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN JAMAICA AND HEMPSTEAD.
THE LITTLE VILLAGE CENTRES ABOUT BEN LANE'S HOTEL ......
BEN LANE'S HOTEL SHOWS ON THE 1873 BEER'S ATLAS
IN 1871 "INGLEWOOD" STATION WAS OPENED AT CREED AVENUE, SPRINGFIELD ROAD.
THE ESTATE OF COLONEL A. M. WOOD WAS NAMED "INGLEWOOD" AND WAS ON THE NORTH
SIDE OF JERICHO TURNPIKE ON THE WEST SIDE OF CREED AVENUE - SPRINGFIELD ROAD.
COLONEL WOOD WAS INVOLVED IN THE SALE OF LOTS HERE.
THIS BECAME THE PERMANENT LOCATION OF QUEENS STATION.
FROM THE BROOKLYN EAGLE
BRUSHVILLE PASSENGER STATION WAS RETAINED OR REOPENED AND WAS LISTED IN JUNE 1897.
IT MAY HAVE REMAINED AS BRUSHVILLE ROAD, INTERSTATE PARK AND BELLAIRE.
THIS IS CONTRADICTED BY THIS BROOKLYN EAGLE ARTICLE FROM 1900
THIS CIRCA 1895 MAP SHOWS A PROPOSED STATION AT FIRST AVENUE
POSSIBLY IT REOPENED IN 1897 AND THE FRAME
STATION BUILDING WAS ERECTED IN 1900
Go to ----> BRUSHVILLE ROAD, INTERSTATE PARK AND BELLAIRE
QUEENS STATION
SIGNAL STATION NUMBER 45 - "QU"
THIRD TRACK DID NOT EXTEND WEST OF HERE UNTIL APRIL 1907.
IN 1924 THE GRADE CROSSINGS WERE ELIMINATED, THE TRACKS WERE
INCREASED TO FOUR, A NEW HIGH PLATFORM STATION AND BRICK
TOWER WITH AN ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC INTERLOCKING WERE ERECTED
AND THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO QUEENS VILLAGE.
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