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Beginnings: A small kettle pond fed by a freshwater spring at the edge of the Hempstead Plains was the basis of Plainview's origins. The pond became a holy site for Indians, who valued rare sources of fresh water. They named the pond Moscopas, meaning ``hole of dirt and water,'' and the hill Manetto, a word for ``god.'' Hempstead settler Robert Williams purchased land west of Moscopas from the Matinecocks in 1648. The major European land purchase, however, was in 1695, when Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase extended north to Moscopas. A tiny farming community formed near the pond, taking the name Manetto Hill.
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainvie...
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Beginnings: A small kettle pond fed by a freshwater spring at the edge of the Hempstead Plains was the basis of Plainview's origins. The pond became a holy site for Indians, who valued rare sources of fresh water. They named the pond Moscopas, meaning ``hole of dirt and water,'' and the hill Manetto, a word for ``god.'' Hempstead settler Robert Williams purchased land west of Moscopas from the Matinecocks in 1648. The major European land purchase, however, was in 1695, when Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase extended north to Moscopas. A tiny farming community formed near the pond, taking the name Manetto Hill.
Photo: Plainview Old Bethpage Community Park on Washington Ave. in Plainview. (Newsday / John Keating)
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    Jan 16, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  1. Dating in an age of multiple divorces

    With divorce rates in the U.S. consistently reported at 30 to 50 percent, odds are pretty good that anyone on the dating scene is dancing, dining and moviegoing with someone who has been divorced, and often more than once. Relationship experts don't...

    Tags: Family, Harvard University, Psychology, Divorce, Science and Technology

  2. Nov 9, 2012 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  3. Rage In Oceanside As Power-Less Residents Attack Politicians

    They cursed and they yelled outside a public school in Oceanside on Friday. About 700 residents of this town in southern Nassau County faced off against their local, elected officials, including the Town Supervisor, enraged that they 're still without power, 12 days after super storm Sandy flooded their homes and knocked down their utility poles.
    pix11.com | @murphypix
    They cursed and they yelled outside a public school in Oceanside on Friday. About 700 residents of this town in southern Nassau County faced off against their local, elected officials, including the Town Supervisor, enraged that they 're still without...

    Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Barack Obama, Mineola, Oceanside (Hempstead, New York), Carolyn McCarthy

  4. Feb 21, 2012 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  5. Crime On The Rise In Nassau County: Report

    If you live in Nassau County, you are more likely now than you were this time last year to be burglarized.
Recently released crime statistics show burglaries are up countywide.
    pix11.com | @lifeofareporter
    If you live in Nassau County, you are more likely now than you were this time last year to be burglarized. Recently released crime statistics show burglaries are up countywide. "This might be a blib," said East Meadow resident James Pollack. According...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jericho, Nassau County, New York City Police Department, Bethpage

  6. Sep 1, 2011 |Story| Daily Pilot
  7. On Theater: New theater season off and running

    No sooner does September check in than local stage productions flood in. The honor of kicking off the 2011-12 season goes to the Costa Mesa Playhouse. This weekend it revives Noel Coward's ghostly comedy "Blithe Spirit." That's the antique chuckler about...

    Tags: To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Sherlock Holmes (movie), Brighton Beach, Judges, Shrek (fictional character)

  8. Sep 7, 2011 |Story| Petoskey News
  9. A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims

    A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...

    Tags: Sybase Incorporated, Milford (New Haven, Connecticut), Michael Otto , Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut), Glen Head

  10. Sep 29, 2011 |Story| Daily Pilot
  11. Creationism: 'Gobbledy gook' or fact?

    Plainview, Kan., exists in Catherine Trieschmann's imagination.
    Plainview, Kan., exists in Catherine Trieschmann's imagination. But the playwright is no stranger to the actual fertile flatlands of the Great Plains, the threat of tornadoes that hangs above the American heartland's sky and its charged social issues....

    Tags: Biology, Genesis (music group), FEMA, Church and State Relations, Washington, DC

  12. Oct 6, 2011 |Story| Daily Pilot
  13. On Theater: Beliefs clash in SCR's 'World' premiere

    Those who believe in science and those whose lives are ruled by faith are, by definition, worlds apart in their concept of what is commonly known as the creation. For one camp to sway the other, either by logic or by religious conversion, is virtually...

    Tags: Biology, Science

  14. Jul 23, 2011 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  15. Wheelchair-Bound 8-Year-Old Found Dead On LI

    Police are looking into what they believe is a murder-attempted suicide involving a disabled, eight-year-old girl and her 30-year-old mother.
    wpix.com
    Police are looking into what they believe is a murder-attempted suicide involving a disabled, eight-year-old girl and her 30-year-old mother. Saturday was suppose to be a great day for little Julie Cirella, who - despite being confined to a wheelchair...

    Tags: Crimes, Nassau County Police, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Health

  16. Apr 8, 2009 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  17. Police: Couple Robbed Banks to Support Drug Habit

    EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (WPIX) -- A Long Island couple had such a serious drug addiction, they robbed banks in Nassau County to get money to support their habits, according to police. David Graf, 29, of Seaford, was charged Tuesday with third-degree robbery in...

    Tags: Crimes, WPIX, Theft, Nassau County, Health

  18. Nov 15, 2008 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  19. 'Wall of Shame' Back Up

    Nassau County's "Wall of Shame" returned Thursday to the county Web site in a much slimmed-down version, this time including the names only of people who have been convicted -- not merely accused -- of drunken driving. The revival of the wall includes...

    Tags: Garden City (Nassau, New York), Judges, Travel, Punishment, Nassau County

  20. Apr 30, 2009 |Blog| Newsday
  21. Calling All Readers Who Live in Huntington....

    The TV Zone
    Give us your stories.... (Pix: Bill Davis, Newsday) Are you out there? Good! WLIW/21 wants you, needs you, will make you a star. The channel's putting together a doc on the town of Huntington - not unlike "New York......

    Tags: Family, Huntington Station, Entertainment, New York, Movies

  22. Jul 18, 2010 |Story| WPIX-LTV
  23. Dozens Of Animals Killed In LI Veterinary Fire

    Dozens of animals died Sunday morning after a fire ripped through a Plainview veterinary clinic.
    wpix.com
    Dozens of animals died Sunday morning after a fire ripped through a Plainview veterinary clinic. According to Nassau County fire officials, at least two dogs, several birds and one rabbit died in the fire that broke out just before 8 a.m. at the Old...

    Tags: Fires, WPIX, Animals, Nassau County, Disasters and Accidents

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