>>12258640>1837 now that’s oldThat Staten Island town, New Brighton, was incorporated in 1835. It had gas-lighting...which was considered modern as f. Electricity came in 1878, but my home had gas lightning.
During the Revolutionary War it was a Brit stronghold, due to the close waterways and ferries connecting it to the mainland & Manhattan ...the island's strategic ability to easily access
Brooklyn (all of Long Island) and Northern and Southern NJ communities.
By 1837, it was largely back to farmland, while known as a rejuvenating seaside resort....almost right up to 1964 when the mile-long Verranzano Bridge finally connected the isles of Staten Island to Long Island (Brooklyn on its western end) and, the isle of Manhattan in kind...completing the I-95 route from Florida to Canada.
Staten Island is where Santa Ana lived while in exile from Mexico before going back to glory; it is also where Alexander Hamilton lived before his duel with Aaron Burr ended his life a bit north in Jersey.
In the early 1600s it was the capital of New Amsterdam (the precursor of NY State) under Peter Stuyvestant, allegedly purchased for 24 dollars from the Native tribes.
It is also where I find early persons on my dad's side, living by 1630.
>I wouldn't be surprised to find these facts are no longer taught to Staten Island children.Luckily, some of us still remember.
Is your graphic suggesting a different flag for us. I've not seen it before.
