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Rockaway Beach (Images of America) (Paperback)

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Chronicling the story of New York's beloved Rockaway Beach community and the efforts to recapture the magical success from an earlier era.


The American frontier did not just consist of a prairie--it also included marshes and windswept sand dunes. When the earliest settlers arrived at Rockaway Beach on steamships in the mid-1800s, it was a narrow strip of land packed with ponds and covered with dunes. Within 30 years, the community had grown into a wildly popular resort served by a thriving rail line. Amusement parks, hotels, taverns, and dance halls abounded, as did bungalow courts and open-air tent colonies. In the 1960s, the area was disrupted by urban development efforts and transportation infrastructure had declined.

Today, Rockaway Beach is being rediscovered by a new generation of visitors and entrepreneurs as longtime residents work simultaneously to reinvigorate it.


Product Details
ISBN: 9780738591483
ISBN-10: 0738591483
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Date: June 4th, 2012
Pages: 128
Language: English
Series: Images of America