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Midway between the North and South Shore villages of western Long Island stretched a vast prairie called the Hempstead Plains. The area was populated mostly by farmers until 1787, when the opening of the Queens County Courthouse - Nassau was then part of Queens - brought a bumper crop of lawyers to what was then called Clowesville. Today there are 1,353 lawyers listing their business address in Mineola, now the seat of Nassau County government, law and politics.
Photo: from about 1917 shows Mineola Village Hall, which had been the first county courthouse and the village's firehouse.
Photo: from about 1917 shows Mineola Village Hall, which had been the first county courthouse and the village's firehouse.
Midway between the North and South Shore villages of western Long Island stretched a vast prairie called the Hempstead Plains. The area was populated mostly by farmers until 1787, when the opening of the Queens County Courthouse - Nassau was then part of Queens - brought a bumper crop of lawyers to what was then called Clowesville. Today there are 1,353 lawyers listing their business address in Mineola, now the seat of Nassau County government, law and politics.
Photo: from about 1917 shows Mineola Village Hall, which had been the first county courthouse and the village's firehouse.
Photo: from about 1917 shows Mineola Village Hall, which had been the first county courthouse and the village's firehouse.
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