Rossville, Staten Island
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| Neighborhood of Staten Island | |
Rossville A.M.E. Zion Church
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| Coordinates: 40°32′28″N 74°13′01″W / 40.541°N 74.217°WCoordinates: 40°32′28″N 74°13′01″W / 40.541°N 74.217°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Staten Island |
| Established | 1684 |
Rossville is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, on the island's South Shore. It is located to the north of Woodrow, to the west of Arden Heights, and to the south and east of the Arthur Kill.
Originally inhabited by the Raritan Indians, the area that eventually became known as Rossville remained largely free of European settlers until 1684 when the first land survey of the area was made by the British, who obtained Staten Island from the Dutch in the Treaty of Breda, which ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
In 1692, Daniel Perrin, a Huguenot originally from Jersey, was granted 80 acres (320,000 m2) of land in the area (then known as Smoking Point) by Governor Benjamin Fletcher.
The earliest known permanent settlement of the area is thought to be around the early 1700s by Peter Winant (1654-1758), son of Pieterse Wynant, one the earliest known permanent settlers of Staten Island, who arrived from Holland in 1661.
During the mid 18th century, the area was known as Old Blazing Star, and later simply Blazing Star, for a tavern located there. The Blazing Star Burial Ground, an abandoned cemetery dating from the mid-1750s, can be found just off Arthur Kill Road, north of Rossville Avenue (40°33′24″N 74°12′42″W / 40.5568°N 74.2118°W).
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