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Wayanda Park

Robard La. bet. Hollis Ave. and Montery St.

Queens

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?
The Canarsie, who were part of the Lenape nation, originally occupied this land.  The Dutch arrived in the 17th century and settled the Town of Jamaica, believed to be named after the Algonquin word jameco or “beaver.”

To address overcrowding at the burial ground at Prospect Cemetery, the town acquired this site on July 13, 1844 to be used as a potter’s field. Persons of color were buried in a separate area of the cemetery than white individuals. Graves were only marked with wooden stakes that rotted over time, and the site was desolate by the early 1870s.  In 1878, the town authorized individuals described as asylum inmates and poorhouse residents from the towns of Flushing, Newtown, Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay to be interred at the burial ground as well. 

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