 Hempstead, NY 11550 is a village within the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island. It is sometimes referred to as Hempstead Village to differentiate it from the Town of Hempstead.
In the fall of 1643, Robert Fordham and John Carman crossed the Long Island Sound by rowboat to negotiate with the local Indians for a tract of land upon which to establish a new community. Representatives of the Marsape (Massapequa), Mericock (Merrick), Matinecock and Rekowake (Rockaway) tribes met with the two men at a site in Hempstead Village. Tackapousha who was the sachem chief of the Marsapeague was the spokesman for the other tribes. The Indians sold approximately 64,000 acres, the present day towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead, for items worth less than $100 in today’s market. This transaction is depicted in a mural in Hempstead Village Hall, commemorating the 300th anniversary of Hempstead.
Early Long Islanders made their living in agriculture or from the sea. Hempstead, with its central location, became the marketplace for the outlying farming communities. It was a natural progression, as the surrounding areas developed from small farms into today’s suburbia, that Hempstead Village would remain as the marketplace. Department stores such as Arnold Constable and Abraham & Straus called Hempstead home for many years. Hempstead’s Abraham & Straus was the largest grossing suburban department store in the country during the late 1960s. Hempstead was Nassau County’s retail center during the 1940s through the 1960s. Hempstead has developed over the past three hundred and fifty years into the most populous village in the state of New York, with a population in excess of fifty thousand people. It is also the seat of government for the Town of Hempstead.
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