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What was here before?
Rockaway and its vicinity were populated by the Rockaway and Canarsie tribes before Europeans arrived. Rockaway has been translated as “sandy place” or “place of our people”. Captain John Palmer “purchased” the peninsula from Indigenous chiefs in 1685, and in 1687 Palmer and his wife Sarah sold the undeveloped land to Richard Cornell, an ironmaster from Flushing. Cornell and his family are believed to have been the peninsula’s first white settlers. They built a house in Far Rockaway in 1690, and their household included at least three enslaved persons.
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