In this new book, author Richard Panchyk narrates the dramatic transformation of this once-agricultural hamlet, founded in 1670 by Quakers. Little more than a country town until the first two decades of the twentieth century, Westbury changed overnight as Manhattan s financial titans embarked on a frenzied pace of building and development mansions, resorts, even a racetrack and an airport catapulting the community into modern times. Westbury was the site of one of the country s first auto races, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup. Its train stop witnessed the nation s first ever train-car collision. And in 1927, Charles Lindbergh bedded down in Westbury before taking off on his flight into history. Let Panchyk whisk you through the region s occasionally contentious, frequently dramatic, and always entertaining growth and development in A History of Westbury, Long Island."
In this new book, author Richard Panchyk narrates the dramatic transformation of this once-agricultural hamlet, founded in 1670 by Quakers. Little more than a country town until the first two decades of the twentieth century, Westbury changed overnight as Manhattan s financial titans embarked on a frenzied pace of building and development mansions, resorts, even a racetrack and an airport catapulting the community into modern times. Westbury was the site of one of the country s first auto races, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup. Its train stop witnessed the nation s first ever train-car collision. And in 1927, Charles Lindbergh bedded down in Westbury before taking off on his flight into history. Let Panchyk whisk you through the region s occasionally contentious, frequently dramatic, and always entertaining growth and development in A History of Westbury, Long Island."
- ISBN:
- 9781540204479
- 9781540204479
- Category:
- Local history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 03-09-2007
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x177.8x11.18mm
- Weight:
- 0.5kg
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