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Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.〔(Queens Community Boards ), New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.〕 ==History== The name "Rockaway" may have meant "place of sands" in the Munsee language of the Native American Lenape. Other spellings include Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, Rechquaakie and Reckowacky.〔See Metoac#Exonyms and Toponymy of New Netherland.〕 In September 1609, Henry Hudson and his crew were the first Europeans to see the Rockaways and Jamaica Bay.〔 * ("Rockaway... 'place of waters bright'" ), rockawave.com. Retrieved 2015-03-16. * ("The Dean Georges Collection: Far Rockaway, Edgemer, Arverne" ). Rockaway Memories. Retrieved 2015-03-16.〕 Hudson was attempting to go to the Northwest Passage. On September 11, Hudson sailed into the Upper New York Bay,〔(Nevius, Michelle and James, "New York's many 9/11 anniversaries: the Staten Island Peace Conference" ), ''Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City'', 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2009-05-31.〕 and the following day began a journey up the modern-day Hudson River. Rockaway was, back then, inhabited by Canarsie Indians. The name Reckowacky, which is also spelled Requarkie, Rechouwakie, Rechaweygh, or Rechquaakie,〔 was to distinguish the Rockaway village from other Mohawk Nation villages; "Reckowacky" means "lonely place", or "place of waters bright".〔Rockaway, The Playground of New York, Annual yearbook of the Rockaways, June, 1934〕 By 1639, the Mohegan tribe sold most of the Rockaways to the Dutch West India Company. In 1664, the English got the land from the Dutch.〔See New Amsterdam〕〔Henry L. Schoolcraft, "The Capture of New Amsterdam," ''English Historical Review'' (1907) 22#88 674–693 (in JSTOR )〕 In 1685, the tribal chieftain, Chief Tackapoucha, and the English governor agreed to sell the Rockaways to one Captain Palmer for 31 pounds sterling.〔 The Rockaway Peninsula was originally part of the Town of Hempstead, then a part of Queens County. Palmer and the town of Hempstead disputed over who owned Rockaway, so the land was sold to Richard Cornell, an iron master from Flushing in 1687. Cornell and his family lived on a homestead on Central Avenue, near the Atlantic Ocean shore; upon his death, Cornell was buried in a small family cemetery, Cornell Cemetery, which is the only designated New York City landmark in the Rockaways.〔 The Rockaway Association wanted to build a hotel on the Rockaway peninsula. The association, consisting of many wealthy members, bought most of Cornell's old homestead property. The Marine Hotel, which was built on that site, became a place where the Vanderbilt family, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Washington Irving, eventually stayed. The Rockaway Association also built the Rockaway Turnpike. The Marine Hotel burned to the ground in 1864, but more hotels and private residences were built in the area.〔 Horse-drawn carriages and horses originally comprised a transport mode to the Rockaways. A ferry traveled from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. By the 1880s, the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach Branch was built from Far Rockaway station.〔 The steam railroad went to Long Island City and Flatbush Terminal (now Atlantic Terminal), which facilitated population growth on the Rockaway Peninsula when it opened in the 1880s.〔, p. 120.〕 Benjamin Mott gave the LIRR of land for a railroad depot. Land values increased and businesses in the area grew, and by 1888, Far Rockaway was a relatively large village.〔 By 1898, the area was incorporated into the Greater City of New York. Far Rockaway, Hammels, and Arverne tried to secede from the city several times. In 1915 and 1917, a bill approving the secession passed in the legislature but was vetoed by the mayor at the time, John Purroy Mitchel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/rockaways.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Far Rockaway, Queens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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