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May 7, 2018 (350 Front Street: Hempstead: 1918 Town Hall replaced by building on 1 Washington Street in 1967. Both buildings are still in use. 11: Jerusalem District No. 5 Schoolhouse
Hempstead may have been named after Hemel Hempstead in the English county of Hertfordshire, where village founder John Carman was born. [7] Another theory regarding the origin of the village's name is that it is derived from the town of Heemstede in the Netherlands, as this was an area from which many Dutch settlers of New Netherland originated.
The Town of Hempstead is the largest of the three towns in Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) on Long Island, in New York, United States.The town's combined population was 793,409 at the 2020 census, making it the most populated town in the United States, containing the majority of the population of Nassau County.
Hempstead House, also known as the Gould-Guggenheim Estate or Sands Point Preserve, is a large American estate that was built for Howard Gould and completed for Daniel Guggenheim in 1912.
West Hempstead is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.The population was 19,835 at the time of the 2020 census. [2]
Barbara L. Hempstead, American hematologist, neuroscientist, and academic administrator; Edward Hempstead (1780–1817), American lawyer and pioneer; Harry Hempstead (1868–1938), American owner of the New York Giants from 1912 to 1919
Hempstead Harbor (also known as Hempstead Bay) is a bay hugging the northern coast of Long Island, in Nassau County, New York.Located off of the Long Island Sound, it forms the northernmost portion of the political border between the Nassau County towns of Oyster Bay on the east and North Hempstead on the west, as well as the western border of the city of Glen Cove.
The Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in Hempstead, New York.It contains the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's indoor customer facility between Jackson and West Columbia Streets – as well as the terminus for the Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located right across West Columbia Street from the bus terminal.