Incorporated Village of Garden City
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One of Americas earliest planned villages, Garden City was developed with wide avenues, hundreds of trees and shrubs, sixty well built homes on spacious lots, a handsome hotel on a 30-acre park - all reached via its own railroad line, Stewarts Central Railroad of Long Island. When Alexander Turney Sterwart died in 1876, his wife Cornelia built in memory of her husband the landmark Cathedral of the Incarnation, Bishops residence and two church schools. She agreed to deed these properties to the Episcopal Church of Long Island with one provision - that her husband be entombed in the Cathedral. They agreed. After Mrs. Stewart's death in 1886, her heirs formed the Garden City Company in 1893 to continue the orderly development of the Village. For many years there was little change in the original Village's overall dimensions. |
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