At the turn of the century, the area between Lefferts Boulevard and Maple Grove Cemetery was called Hayestown after its owner, Ambrose Hayes. Hayes ran a general store near today's Metropolitan Avenue and Cuthbert Road. His property was not included in Albon Man's 1868 purchase of Richmond Hill, but after Hayes' death in 1911, the Man Family acquired the land and renamed it East Richmond Hill. Yet, for decades afterwards, residents still referred to the place as Hayestown.