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A brief history lesson about the Jorissen Millstones, possibly the oldest surviving European artifacts in NY City, with voice over from Bob Singleton of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. The millstones were embedded in the pavement of Queens Plaza from 1920 to 2009. Currently, they are surrounded by heavy machinery and construction materials at the Queens Plaza reconstruction project site. One of them has in fact been removed from the pavement and crated onsite. Both have suffered deterioration in recent years. For more info and to sign the petition to move the millstones to an exhibit space at the Greater Astoria Historical Society or other suitable space in LIC, make viewing available to historians, students and the general public and to support efforts to have them designated official New York City Landmarks see  http://licmillstones.wordpress.com/

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