Farmingdale

Thomas Powell arrived in the region in 1687 and was the first European settlers. He acquired a 15-square-mile (39 km2) parcel of property from three Native American tribes on October 18, 1695. This is referred to as the Bethpage Purchase and comprises Bethpage, Melville, North Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainedge, and Plainview, as well as what is currently Farmingdale. Built in 1738, one of the two houses he built in the region is still standing on Merritts Road in Farmingdale.

property developer Ambrose George acquired a sizable plot of property between the Suffolk County communities of Hardscrabble and Bethpage, which is now known as Old Bethpage, in the 1830s, in anticipation of the Long Island Rail Road’s completion.In the western portion of this land, he constructed a general store that he called Farmingdale. The LIRR named its most recent stop, here, on the line it was building to Greenport, Farmingdale, when it began service to the area in October 1841[4][5]. From the Farmingdale station, stagecoaches transported passengers to West Neck (Huntington region), Islip, Babylon, Patchogue, and Oyster Bay South.

A fire department was established in 1886, and Farmingdale became a village in 1904.

Benjamin F. Yoakum was the owner and operator of the 18-hole private Devereux Emmet-designed Lenox Hills Country Club, which was built north of the hamlet in 1923. After being acquired by the State of New York, this golf course had significant expansions before reopening as Bethpage State Park in 1932. A.W. Tillinghast, a subsequent member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, was largely responsible for the golf course’s design. The more affluent area of Farmingdale Village is known as the Lenox Hills community, which was built in the 1920s and later expanded upon. It is situated between the golf courses of Bethpage State Park and the Long Island Railroad trackage, and it features a broad boulevard and rolling hills.

the vicinity of Farmingdale at 60 miles per hour. For many years, the town held an annual Hardscrabble Fair complete with games, food, and music to commemorate its founding. Typically, it took place in May.

Usage of name

Apart from the village lines, Farmingdale is also connected to a number of unincorporated localities, such as East Farmingdale (in the Town of Babylon within Suffolk County) and South Farmingdale (also in the Town of Oyster Bay inside Nassau County). Farmingdale is the postal address and the same ZIP code (11735) are used by other neighboring locations that are beyond the village borders. Residents of South Farmingdale may choose either Farmingdale or East Farmingdale as their mailing address. South Farmingdale, or Farmingdale? There’s a Farmingdale mailing address for Bethpage State Park, which is primarily in Old Bethpage. Parts of Nassau County, Suffolk County, and the southernmost portion of Bethpage State Park—where the clubhouse is situated—are included in the Farmingdale Union Free School District (UFSD 22). Travelers are greeted to Farmingdale by a road sign on Main Street in the southeast region of South Farmingdale, which is more than a mile from the Village of Farmingdale. In addition, Farmingdale is the name of the nearby Farmingdale Fire District and Farmingdale Water District, which both encompass territory outside the limits of the Farmingdale Village. East Farmingdale is home to Republic Airport and Farmingdale State College, both of which have Farmingdale mailing addresses.