Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 37 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. First Avenue, College Point—Flushing College Point derives its name from the establishment of a collegehere in 1826. There was quite a settlement at this time, and manufac-turers noting the many facilities offered them located their plants Goodyear, the discoverer of the process of making hard rubber,began his experiments with Conrad Poppenhusen, who is commonlyknown as the founder of College Point—which con
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 37 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. First Avenue, College Point—Flushing College Point derives its name from the establishment of a collegehere in 1826. There was quite a settlement at this time, and manufac-turers noting the many facilities offered them located their plants Goodyear, the discoverer of the process of making hard rubber,began his experiments with Conrad Poppenhusen, who is commonlyknown as the founder of College Point—which continues to be the homeof the hard rubber industry of the United States. Conrad Poppenhusen was a man of marked ability and of distin-guished humanitarian impulse. A worthy disciple of Peter Cooper,whom he sought to emulate, this hard-working, broad-minded, progres-sive German by an endowment for a substantial sum founded a technicalschool for training in the commercial arts and trades — PoppenhusenInstitute. The Institute occupies a commodious building and has devel-oped and trained many thousands of young men and women in usefulpursuits. Its yearly roster of student
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