This 1870's property map indicates with a single red underline the farming neighbors of Bernard Rottkamp at the time of the 1860 Census. He had moved on to Foster's Meadow about 1861, but there was little change in his old farming neighborhood. Hoffman Boulevard is today Queens Boulevard. The cross street is today 57th Avenue. The neighborhood is now known as Elmhurst. At the time real estate promoters saw to the name change from Newtown to Elmhurst, one newspaper observer remarked there was not an elm tree to be found in Elmhurst.
The double red underline indicates the homestead of Henry Wulforst on Cooper Avenue. His daughter Theresa born in 1865 would later marry Henry Rottkamp, from Foster's Meadow, and the son of Bernard and Caroline. It suggests that the families maintained close ties after the Rottkamp move from Newtown to Foster's Meadow in 1861.
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Henry Wulforst, Sr. died In Newtown in 1893. |
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