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Union Turnpike & Vleigh Place, Queens

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  • Queens: Union Turnpike - Vleigh Place, 1929

    Queens: Union Turnpike - Vleigh Place

    1929

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Queens: Union Turnpike - Vleigh Place, 1929

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Queens: Union Turnpike - Vleigh Place

1929

Union Turnpike (foreground), at the N.E. corner of Vleigh Place (the Head of the Vleigh Road, left), showing an old farm house belonging to B. Laddy in 1873 and D. Letty in 1891. April 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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