A history of Rockville Centre,
since 1893
Postcards, papers and photographs of Rockville Centre from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The site of Rockville Centre has been occupied by humans for thousands of years. Generally speaking, the people of the prehistoric Woodlands period East River culture are believed to have been the Algonkian-speaking ancestors of the historical Indian tribes of western Long Island. The historical territory of their Lenape descendants, the Canarsie, Recouwacky (Rockaway), Matinecock and Massapequa, included present-day western Long Island's Queens and Nassau Counties.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Rockville Centre’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewParty & barter - benefit Nassau a…, 1939: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Rockville Centre
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Rockville Centre, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Party & barter - benefit Nassau art teachers scholarship fund (1939) 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.