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History of Hempstead, New York, USA

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Visit Hempstead, New York, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

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  Episcopal Parsonage, Erect. 1793
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• 1854 - Hempstead
  Hempstead, a post-township of Queen's co., New York, on the Atlantic ocean, intersected by the Long Island railroad. Population, 8311.
  
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• 1895 - Hempstead
  Hempstead, a post-village of Queens co., N.Y., in Hempstead township, on the Long Island Railroad and on the Flushing & North Side Railroad, 20 miles ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street
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  Fulton Street, Hempstead, L.I.
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  Public School, 1905
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  Birdseye View of Hempstead, N.Y., 1908
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•  1909 - TRAIN HITS AUTO; TWO MEN KILLED
  They Are Hurled Into the Telegraph Wires Overhead and a Third Seriously Injured.
  GAVE NO HEED TO SIGNALS
  One Man, Fearful That Some Accident Was...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1910 - INMATES CAUGHT IN BLAZING POORHOUSE. OLD MAN DEAD, FIVE PERSONS IN HOSPITAL AFTER MIDNIGHT FIRE IN HEMPSTEAD. PANIC ON STEEP STAIRWAYS.
  HAND GRENADES KEPT THE FLAMES BACK AND SAVED MANY LIVES, BUT SOME OF THE INJURED MAY DIE.
  
  Hempstead, L. I., March 10. - The Hempstead Poorhouse,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Greenwich Street, looking South
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  Thorne Ave.
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  Hempstead Pond, Fulton Ave.
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•  1912 - LONGSTAFF FATALLY INJURED IN CRASH.
  Hempstead, N.Y., Sept. 28 - JOHN L. LONGSTAFF, a former English army officer, was mortally injured this evening while flying in a "Farman" biplane...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street, 1912
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• 1916
  Hempstead, a banking post-village and summer-resort of Nassau co., N.Y., in Hempstead township (town), on the Long Island R., 20 miles E. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street, 1918
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  Main St., from Front St.
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  The Moose Club
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  L.I.R.R. Station
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  Central Nassau Building, Hempstead, L.I., N.Y.
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  Post Office
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  Main Street, 1938
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  Brower Hall, Hofstra College, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.
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  New Village Hall and Fire House, Hempstead, L.I.
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  Hempstead High School, 1943
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•  1950 - February 17 - 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY
  
  February 17, 1950
  
  
•  1969 - September 2 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
  
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  September 2, 1969