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"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 E. of Brooklyn. The Hempstead Branch of the South Side Rail road connects it with Valley Stream Station of the main line. It has 7 churches, 2 newspaper offices, a seminary, a bank, and manufactures of straw hats and cork soles. Pop, in 1890, 4831. The township is bounded on the S. by the Atlantic Ocean, and comprises Rockaway, a fashionable bathing-place. Its surface is level, Pop. 23,756."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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Episcopal Parsonage, Erect. 1793
Main Street
Fulton Street, Hempstead, L.I.
Public School, 1905
Birdseye View of Hempstead, N.Y., 1908
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... 
Greenwich Street, looking South
Thorne Ave.
Hempstead Pond, Fulton Ave.- 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... 
Main Street, 1912- 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... 
Main Street, 1918
Main St., from Front St.
The Moose Club
L.I.R.R. Station
Central Nassau Building, Hempstead, L.I., N.Y.
Post Office
Main Street, 1938
Brower Hall, Hofstra College, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.
New Village Hall and Fire House, Hempstead, L.I.
Hempstead High School, 1943- 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.
historyorb.com
September 2, 1969
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