DipityIn 2001 the Plandome Heights Women’s Club celebrated its 25th Anniversary.
In 2000 major renovations to the Manhasset Station of the Long Island Railroad were completed two years after the 100th Anniversary of its first operation to Manhasset.
In 1999 Plandome Heights celebrated its 70th Anniversary of incorporation.
In 1998 the historic 17th Century Nicoll House in Plandome Manor was demolished.
In 1997 Leeds Pond was dredged and cleaned up of accumulated silt due to rainwater and storm water runoff.
In 1996 a 21.5 million dollar bond referendum was passed to improve the three public school building systems, to increase instructional space at the Munsey Park School and at the Shelter Rock Schoo...
In 1995 the Manhasset Public Library celebrated its 50th Anniversary.
In 1989 a gazebo was built on the site of Manhasset Green which was subsequently renamed Mary Jane Davies Park in honor of this long time community activist.
Also in 1985, the Town of North Hempstead had a Bicentennial Celebration featuring a carnival, a parade, and a fireworks display.
In 1985 hurricane Gloria hit Manhasset. There were widespread power outages and fallen trees. Plandome Heights residents of lower Shore Road, The Beachway, and the Tideway were evacuated because of...
In 1984 a 19.7 million dollar bond referendum was passed to expand and renovate the three public school buildings.
In 1980 Manhasset celebrated its 300th birthday. A history of the Manhasset area, Manhasset—The First 300 Years, was published to commemorate the event.
In 1979 Plandome Heights celebrated its 50th Anniversary of incorporation.
In 1968 Shelter Rock Elementary School was built.
In 1946 Manhasset’s first public library opened in a rented storefront on Plandome Road.
In 1959 Temple Judea was built on Searington Road.
In 1953 the construction of North Shore Hospital began.
In 1952 the present Manhasset Public Library opened on Onderdonk Avenue.
In 1951 much of Flower Hill was built.
In 1949 the Congregational Church was built on Northern Boulevard, and the present Post Office on Maple Place was built.
Also in 1946, the Church of Our Savior Lutheran was built on Northern Boulevard.
In 1941 the development of the “Miracle Mile” on Northern Boulevard began and was continued after World War II.
During the 1940s Strathmore Village and Manhasset Cove were built by housing developers.
In 1939 Munsey Park Elementary School was built.
In 1936 Nassau became the first county in New York State to adopt a county charter. It went into effect in 1938.
In 1935 Manhasset High School opened, built on the Henry F. Thompson estate as a Public Works Project during the Depression.
In 1934 the Manhasset Press was first published.
During the 1930s much of Manhasset was built by housing developers: Munsey Park, North Strathmore, South Strathmore, Shorehaven, Norgate, Strathmore Vanderbilt, Chester Hill (the Bournedale area), ...
In 1929 Plandome Heights became an incorporated village.
In 1928 Munsey Park began to be developed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; many of its streets were named after American artists.
In 1927 the Manhasset Mail was first published.
In 1911 Plandome became an incorporated village.
In 1907 Town Hall opened on Plandome Road and Manhasset became the permanent seat of North Hempstead Town’s government.
After 1900 several shops started opening up on Plandome Road, which would replace Valley Road as the main street.
In 1899 Nassau County was created as a separate county out of Queens.
In 1898 the Long Island Rail Road reached Manhasset and Port Washington. The building of the railroad brought a boom in the growth of Manhasset.
In 1868 the 5-room Plandome Road wooden school was built. It was later torn down in 1914 and a larger red brick school was built on the same site in 1915. This was torn down in 1972 and replaced by...
In 1857 the community of Cow Bay also changed its name to Port Washington.
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church was dedicated in 1857 on Plandome Road. The present St. Mary’s on Northern Boulevard was built in 1917.
In 1846 the first local newspaper was published, The North Hempstead Gazette.
In 1840 the name “Manhasset” was adopted, although no one knows for sure why. It may have come from the name of the “Manhansett” Indians (meaning “island neighborhood”) who lived in the neighborh...
In 1826 the one-room Manhasset Valley common school was built and used until 1868.
In 1802 Christ Episcopal Church was founded and rebuilt in 1913 after being struck by lightning. In 1815 the Dutch Reformed Church was built, and then rebuilt in 1898 after a fire.
In 1801 North Hempstead Turnpike (now Northern Boulevard and formerly an old Indian trail) was opened as a toll road. Plandome Road was a country lane. Most of the shops in Manhasset were clustered...
In 1775 North Hempstead (mainly on the Whig or the Patriot side in the Revolutionary War) seceded from Hempstead Town (mainly Loyalist or Tory) when the latter passed a resolution supporting George...
In 1720 the Society of Friends (Quakers) opened the first school and meeting house in the area, on what is now Northern Boulevard. It was rebuilt in 1812, after being burned by the Hessians.
By 1718 Latham was able to buy Nicoll’s land, and the Plandome Grist mill was known as Latham’s Mill.
It was probably in 1693 that Joseph Latham built the Plandome grist mill at Leeds Pond on Nicoll’s property.
In 1683 the New York State counties were formed. Hempstead (including North Hempstead) was included in Queens County.
In 1680 was the date chosen for Manhasset’s founding, based upon the belief that this was the year the Willets Court area and north Plandome were first settled.
In 1675 Richard Cornwell obtained a grant of land in Cow Neck (in present-day Sands Point) and became its first settler. However, Fordham’s group which lived in Hempstead and used Cow Neck for past...
In 1674 the former common pasture in Cow Neck was divided among the settlers, also according to the number of fence “panels” each had built, except that 200 acres were given to Captain Matthias Nic...
Captain Matthias Nicoll had already bought much of the present-day Plandome area in 1670 and at his death in 1690 owned 600 acres in the area. He built a home on the land and it may have been durin...
In 1664 the British captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch. King Charles II granted Long Island to his brother James, the Duke of York.
By about 1658 part of the now-famous, elusively-situated “cow fence” had been built across the peninsula. Each settler was allowed to pasture a number of cattle in proportion to the number of post-...
In 1644 Fordham and Carmen confirmed their purchase with the Dutch governor William Kieft (who by this time had decided to encourage British settlement as a hedge against the Indians) and brought a...
In 1643 Robert Fordham and John Carmen, two English leaders of a religious sect in Connecticut, bought a strip of Long Island from the Indians and called it “Hempstead.” The price was some large an...
In 1640 the first settlers arrived. Captain Daniel Howe brought some emigrants from Lynn, Massachusetts in a small ship and landed near the southern end of the bay in what is now Manhasset. The set...
In 1614 Adrian Block, following up on Henry Hudson’s voyage to the New World in 1609, was sent by the Dutch West India Company to explore the area for possible fur trading sites. Block’s ship proba...
By 1500 we know from remains uncovered in the location of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, that the Matinecock Indians peopled the bay area, which they called Sint Sink ( possibly meaning “stone upon ...
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