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Frederick J. Lancaster was a land developer who in the 1890s with a group of investors founded the community of Edgemere on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens County. Originally the investors planned to call the community New Venice and develop it with canals and gondoliers. Although this venture failed in 1894 Lancaster formed the Lancaster Sea Beach Improvement Company to build a more conventional seaside colony named Edgemere.