Pioneers of Vanderveer Park

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The Epub version is coming soon to Amazon. com—Pioneers of Vanderveer Park.

This is the true story of two people, Conrad and Augusta, who began their lives in Germany when the Civil War was raging in America and Otto von Bismarck was leading Prussia into wars with Denmark, France, and Austria. Conrad and Augusta lived the immigrant's dream of finding opportunity in a foreign land and culture—pioneers.

Conrad and Augusta were among the leaders in the transformation of the farmlands in the middle of Brooklyn, New York into neighborhoods filled with homes. This development, whose name and whereabouts were familiar to all who once lived in Brooklyn, is now all but forgotten—Vanderveer Park.

Vanderveer Park and its sister development, Bay View Heights, included most of the area between Cortelyou Road and Kings Highway and between Flatbush Avenue and Troy Avenue. Conrad was the builder of the Cortelyou Club and many of the homes throughout this area.

I hope you enjoy this epic story (400 pages), filled with old photographs and other illustrations, of a family who happens to belong to the author and may belong to you too.

Pioneers of Vanderveer Park is my fifth book, but only the second shared with the public. My first book, Greek Like Me, was published in 2011. A revision to this book will be published next year. For the past eighteen years, I have been immersed in exploring our family history, and I am now focused on sharing my discoveries with others. 

 © 2018, Cathy H Paris