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The end of the war brought demoblization and with it the return of young men to begin
new families. To their dismay they found a housing shortage. It led to the post-war
construction boom, which began in the Fall of 1946. On May 27, 1947, the Hempstead
Town Board amended its building code to premit cellarless homes. The change resulted
in the most famous example of mass-home construction, the area in Nassau known as
Levittown. Levittown got its start with William Levitt's construction firm building 10,101
homes between July 1, 1947 and December 31, 1949. Nassau County's growth in the period
1940 to 1950 led the nation. Other areas of Long Island also grew rapidly as demand for
housing outstripped supply.
When western Queens became part of New York City, legislation creating the
independent County of Nassau was passed by the State Legislature and then signed by
Governor Frank Black on April 28, 1898. It provided that Nassau be officially born
on January 1, 1899 and the Towns of North Hempstead, Hempstead and Oyster Bay,
including what would later become the Cities of Long Beach and Glen Cove, secede
from Queens County to form Nassau County. The Horse's Head Peninsula, which seceded
from the Town of Oyster Bay on June 15, 1886, was already part of Suffolk's Town
of Huntington. Today it constitutes the northern half of the Village of Lloyd Harbor.
Remaining with Queens was the Rockaway Peninsula. The truck ladder house of the Mineola
Fire Department Hook and Ladder Company was selected as the temporary home of the
county at the Board of Supervisors' first meeting. In 1900, Governor Theodore
Roosevelt (an Oyster Bay resident) laid the cornerstone of the first Nassau
Courthouse, nown known as the the "Old Courthouse."
(1)SOURCE:Population Survey-1999
Permission to reprint -LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY
SEE- POPULATION SURVEY
(2)SOURCE for names:
* If you're interested in a book for old-place names try
The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names
by Richard A. Winsche
This book can be purchased at the
LONG ISLAND STUDIES INSTITUTE; Hofstra University West Campus
619 Fulton Ave. Hempstead, NY,
11550-4575. (516-463-6411.
Another Source is
Colonial Hempstead
by Bernice Schultz
The Review - Star Press at Lynbrook, New York