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Albertson sits just north of the great Hempstead Plains and was settled by Europeans in the 1640s. John Seren was a member of the initial group of settlers and his name, after a spelling change, is the source of the neighboring community of Searingtown. Townsend Albertson was among the second group of settlers. He ran a farm and gristmill, leading it to be named Albertson Square. In 1850, when a road was cut through Isaac Underhill Willets' farm to Old Westbury, he protested that ``Long Island has more roads now than it will ever need.'' I.U. Willets Road, named in his honor, is still there. in 1864, the Long Island Rail Road built a branch to Glen Cove, it named the station Albertson.
Albertson sits just north of the great Hempstead Plains and was settled by Europeans in the 1640s. John Seren was a member of the initial group of settlers and his name, after a spelling change, is the source of the neighboring community of Searingtown. Townsend Albertson was among the second group of settlers. He ran a farm and gristmill, leading it to be named Albertson Square. In 1850, when a road was cut through Isaac Underhill Willets' farm to Old Westbury, he protested that ``Long Island has more roads now than it will ever need.'' I.U. Willets Road, named in his honor, is still there. in 1864, the Long Island Rail Road built a branch to Glen Cove, it named the station Albertson.
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Diet of Albertson, Hewlett and Hicksville recognizes National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Information supplied by the advertisersDiet Center of Albertson, Hewlett and Hicksville has teamed up with the American Cancer Society to help raise awareness and to provide hope to people facing the disease. For each new client that enrolls in a weight loss program by October 31 of this...Tags: Health Organizations, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Diseases, Cancer, Breast Cancer
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Janet Albertson, a cop’s child and East Hampton murder case prosecutor, is known for her ferocity in court
STAFF WRITERAssistant District Attorney Janet Albertson needed to make a jury understand it was no accident when a St. James man shot a gas station attendant in the head during a robbery. In her closing argument at the 2000 trial of Matthew Svanberg, she talked...Tags: Justice System, Huntington Station, Central Islip, Crimes, Laws
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The Age of the Auto
Staff WriterAs dawn began to break over the Hempstead Plains on a frosty October morning, the clustered crowds along Jericho Turnpike watched the great racing cars line up in their starting order. The racecourse was ready. Street-sprinkling carts had covered the...Tags: History, Newspaper and Magazine, Suffolk County (New York), Museum of Natural History, Melville
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Albertson
Beginnings: Albertson sits just north of the great Hempstead Plains, and like the prairie itself, was first cultivated as farmland by early European settlers in the 1640s. John Seren, a member of the initial group of settlers to come from Connecticut in...Tags: Nassau County, Farms, Long Island Rail Road, Hofstra University, Virginia
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