- The oceanfront land that was to become one of the country's most popular playgrounds was for thousands of years a barren strip of sand, scrub growth and marshes used by the Canarsie Indians as their main shell-collecting site. The Indians called the peninsula 'Rechouwacky,' meaning 'the place of our people.'
White settlers changed it to Rockaway - a peninsula described in one history book as an 'elongated toeless human foot pointing west.'
A Paradise for Everyman
Rockaways
August 23, 2003
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