A history of Farmingdale,
since 1687
Postcards, papers and photographs of Farmingdale from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first European settler in the area was Thomas Powell, who arrived in 1687. On October 18, 1695, he purchased a 15-square-mile (39 km2) tract of land from three Native American tribes. This is known as the Bethpage Purchase and includes what is now Farmingdale – in addition to Bethpage, Melville, North Massapequa, Old Bethpage, Plainedge, and Plainview. One of two houses he erected in the area (built c. 1738) still stands on Merritts Road within Farmingdale.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Farmingdale’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewHannah and Henry K. Lattin (1806-…, 1878: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Farmingdale
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Farmingdale, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Hannah and Henry K. Lattin (1806-1894) in the Queens County Sentinel on August 1, 1878 (1878) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.