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"God could have made a more beautiful place than Staten Island, but he never did." - George William Curtis
"Staten Island... is one of the sweetest spots on our globe. Travel where he may, the voyager fails to find a place where all the comforts and elegance of life are more profusely concentrated than on this island-suburb of the great metropolis America." - John Overton Choules, The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star (New York: Evans & Dickerson; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1854), p. 349
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Thought for Today by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) From Ancestry
Daily News, 12 May 2005
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New 10Jun2008: Second Asbury History
New 13Apr2008: Old Clove Baptist Burials
New 02Apr2008:
Van Street Burials
Van Street Layout
Asbury AME burials
Merrell Cemetery burials
New 18Dec2007: 1912 Industrial Directory
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