Huguenot Ponds Park: Huguenot, Staten Island
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Before the mid-nineteenth century the neighborhood of Huguenot was originally known as Bloomingview. Huguenot got 
its name from the many Huguenots, members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France that had moved to the area. The Huguenots were being prosecuted in France for not converting to Catholicism during the mid-to-late seventeenth century, so many of them fled to America.
By 1851, the Huguenots had established and built their first church in Bloomingview, called "The Brown Church" or "The Church of the Huguenots". The church had caught on fire in 1918 and was rebuilt on the site that it sits on now, in 1924. Today, this church is a New York City Landmark and is known as The Reformed Church of Huguenot Park.
By the mid-to-late 1800s,…
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home to the National Prohibition Campground Association, also known as Prohibition Park. Prohibition Park started off as a campground with some recreational facilities for its visitors. Soon, people began to settle there instead of having to visit.
began to move to Staten Island. With the increase of Staten Island's population and housing, a decrease occurred in Staten Island's undeveloped areas and many of the natural habitats found in the borough began to disappear. Many of Staten Island's current parks would today be plots of land taken up by houses and buildings if it were not for the residents of Staten Island who did not want to see the beautiful natural habitats destroyed. If you look into the past of Staten Island's parks, you will hear many stories about how members of the communities worked together to preserve these places. One such story is that of Last Chance Pond Park, which…
sometimes referred to as Park Hill. Maple Woods is bound by Richmond Road and is between the streets of Steuben Street, Rhine Avenue, and Pierce Street.
shore, right above the Staten Island Expressway. Within the neighborhood are a few parks-one of which is Sobel Court Park.
off, a current professor at the College of Staten Island, was surveying the land and found a rare stone within the diabase. This stone is called trondhjemite and is only known to be found in Wales…
On the South Shore of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Eltingville, one of the housing communities that was built after the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was Atlantic Village. This community is located right off of Arden Avenue and has nice views of the Raritan Bay, being that the houses are across the street from it. This housing community was built between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s.
prominent member of this family on Staten Island was Shipley Jones, who was born in the middle of the nineteenth century. He was born into a wealthy family who created a large estate for him in the current neighborhood of New Brighton. Originally, the estate was owned by his parents, both of whom died prior to the first years of the twentieth century. At that time, the estate was passed down to Shipley Jones, who owned it for a number of years before he too passed away.
Throughout the nineteenth century, farming was one of the most significant industries on Staten Island. By the turn of the twentieth century, the number of farms on the Island began to greatly diminish. Nonetheless, German immigrant Henry William Dietrich Mohlenhoff decided to relocate from his farmland in Queens to Staten Island, where he purchased thirty-two acres of land. On this land, he and his wife established a farm. The couple had one dozen children, all of whom worked on the farm with their parents. Even as the sons married, they would erect their own homes on the property so that they could still work on the farm.Â