The History of Lynbrook – Order Form

Details on this beautiful, 8 1/2" X 11" (coffee table size),

232-page, hard-cover book follow the order form. This is a brand-new 2^nd edition complete with index.

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Cost is $29.95 per book + tax and shipping.

(There is no tax on out-of-state orders, and no shipping charge within Lynbrook)

Mail to:

 Lynbrook Historical Books
 28 Hart Street
 Lynbrook, NY 11563-1711
  
 Telephone:  (516) 887-7673

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 Sales Tax: Please add 8.625% sales tax for each book shipped to a New York State address.
  
 Shipping: $5.00 for the first book plus $2.00 for each additional book. Free shipping within Lynbrook.
 

	NY State (shipping + tax)	Out-of-state Total (shipping, no tax)	Lynbrook Total (tax only)
First Book	29.95	29.95	29.95
Shipping	5.00	5.00	--
Sales Tax	3.01	--	2.58
Total	37.96	34.95	32.53
Each Add’l Book	29.95	29.95	29.95
Shipping	2.00	2.00	--
Sales Tax	2.76	--	2.58
Total	34.71	31.95	32.53

 
Make checks payable to the author:  Arthur Mattson
 
 
 




 
 
 
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Contents

The History of Lynbrook contains over 220 drawings, charts, maps,
vintage photos and postcards. The book has been exhaustively
researched from primary sources.

· Lynbrook's Geology - Beginning at the Beginning

· The Rockaway Indians 12,500 Years Ago to 1643 - The Native Americans whoLived where Lynbrook is Today

· Rokawanhaka to Lynbrook, 1643 to 1894 - How Lynbrook Got Its Ten Names

o Rechqua-Akie or Rokawanhaka

o Rockaway

o Near Rockaway

o Clink-Town

o Parson's Corner

o Bloomfield

o Pearsall's Corners

o Pearsallville

o Pearsalls

o Lynbrook

· The 1890s to the 1910s - Lynbrook at the Turn of the Century Incorporation

· Attempted Murder on Union Avenue

· Long Island's First Movie, Shot in Lynbrook

· September Love

· Lyceum Hall

· Tiger Town

· Bicycle Craze

· Land, Land, Land

· The 1920s and 30s - Prohibition, Crime, the KKK and the Depression Immigration, Race, Religion and the Ku Klux Klan

· The (Almost) Perfect Crime of James Watt Cadoo

· Speakeasies, Gambling, Police Corruption and the Forgotten Deaths in the Line of Duty of Three Lynbrook Police Officers

· The Great Depression

· The Lynbrook Bottling Company - "Victim of the Depression"

· Women of Old Lynbrook

o Julia (Abrams) Fowler

o Women in WW I

o The Wives and Seventeen Children of George Mott

o Catharine Foster

o Schoolteachers

o The "Founders" of the Lynbrook Library

o Suffragettes

o Ten Tragic Lives

· Fire Department, Schools, War, Churches and Organizations Fire Department

· Schools

· Churches and Synagogues

· Lynbrook at War

· Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts

· Business

· Personalities

o Henri Charpentier - World-Class Chef and Creator of the Crepe Suzette

o Emma Dayton - Business Pioneer

o Shorty the Cop - Poetry in Motion at the Five Corners

o Karl Wildermuth - World Record Holding Sprinter

o Henri A. Franchimont - Pioneer of Flight

o Edgar L. Morrison - Impresario Extraordinaire

o Whittaker Chambers - Lynbrook's "Most Famous Person," Spy, Rat, and Hero

o John Monahan, and the History of the LIRR and the Trolley

· Lynbrook and the Sea

· A Walk up the Mill River - Long Island's Historically Most Important River, a hidden historical treasure on Lynbrook's eastern border

· The Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico - How 139 Irish, English, andScottish immigrants ended up in a mass grave in Lynbrook

· A Lynbrook Timeline - Important dates and events in Lynbrook's history

· Where in the World is Lynbrook?

· Lynbrook's Presidents and Mayors - from 1911 to the present

· Population Statistics

· Historical Odds & Ends

· Historians as Detectives

· Sources - A list of selected sources used in the compilation of this history