User:Sakraft1/History Of New Hyde Park, New York

History
Thomas Dongan, the fourth royal governor of New York, was granted an 800 acre parcel of land in 1683 that included New Hyde Park. It was known as "Dongan's Farm." Dongan built a mansion on what is now Lakeville Road. There were slaves on the estate. In 1691 Dongan fled to New England and then Ireland, as King James II and his Catholic forces failed to regain power in England and Ireland.

In 1715, Dongan's estate was sold to George Clark (who was Secretary of the Provence of New York). He named it Hyde Park in honor of his wife, Ann Hyde. Clark sold the property in 1783 and in the early 1800s is was parceled up and sold as farm land. Raising cattle was a chief agricultural enterprise from Dongan's time until the mid 1800s, when cattle farming in the expanding American West forced the farmers into other pursuits.

When a post office opened in 1871, the name was changed from Hyde Park to New Hyde Park to avoid confusion with the upstate Hyde Park.

The village was incorporated in 1927.