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Mantinecoc Native Americans were the original inhabitants of Flushing. The first Europeans settled in 1645 in Flushing under the charter of the Dutch West India Company. They called Flushing the city of Vissingen. Flushing was mainly settled by the immigrants from England, who fought for religious freedom. The Flushing Remonstrance, signed between the British settlers and the Dutch India Company on December 27, 1657 allowed Quakers, the freedom of religion. Thus Flushing is considered as the birth place of religious freedom in New World.
The 1939 New York's world Fair brought about great changes in the town of Flushing durig the 20th century. These changes included economic, cultural, educational,real estate, transportation, and immigration. Flushing is now an urban neighborhood, where new waves of citizens have settled since 1960'as. Currently Flushing is settled by East Indians, Chinese, Koreans, African American and Hispanic. Since 1990's the population of Koreans immigrants has significantly increased in Flushing, bringing about big new changes. The increase in the Asian population has had a positive economic effects in Flushing.