St. Albans, NY

St. Albans Overview

Part of a land grant to Dutch settlers from New Netherlands Gov. Peter Stuyvesant in 1655, the area, like much of Queens, remained farmland and forest for most of the next two centuries.

By the 1800s, the plantations of four families ? the Remsens, Everitts, Ludlums and Hendricksons ? formed the nucleus of this sprawling farm community in the eastern portion of Jamaica Township. In 1814, when...