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        "text": "According to a Newsday local-history article, residents chose the name Plainview in 1886, after the Manetto Hill post office application was rejected in 1885 because another New York community had a similar name, \"because of the prairie vistas from the top of the hill.\"",
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        "date": "1648",
        "label": "Robert Williams purchase",
        "text": "Hempstead settler Robert Williams, originally of Wales, purchased land west of the Moscopas pond from the Matinecock.",
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        "date": "1695",
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        "text": "Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase, the area's major European land acquisition, extended settlement north to the Moscopas pond.",
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        "date": "1837",
        "label": "LIRR reaches Hicksville",
        "text": "The railroad's arrival at nearby Hicksville opened Brooklyn, western Queens and New York City markets to Manetto Hill farmers.",
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        "date": "1885",
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        "date": "1886",
        "label": "Renamed Plainview",
        "text": "Residents chose the name Plainview for the prairie vistas visible from the top of the hill.",
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      {
        "date": "1927-09",
        "label": "First fire department parade",
        "text": "A Town of Oyster Bay archival photograph documents the first Plainview Fire Department parade, held on Labor Day.",
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      {
        "date": "1950",
        "label": "Population before the boom",
        "text": "Plainview's population stood at 1,155.",
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      {
        "date": "1960",
        "label": "Post-war population growth",
        "text": "Plainview's population had grown to more than 35,000 within a decade, as farmers sold land during the postwar housing boom.",
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          "Plainview's origin is tied to a small kettle pond fed by a freshwater spring at the edge of the Hempstead Plains, \"just northeast of the modern-day intersection of Old Country and Manetto Hill Roads,\" which a Newsday local-history article says was left behind by retreating glaciers and became a holy site for Native Americans across Long Island who valued the rare freshwater source.[4] The article states that Native people \"named the pond Moscopas, meaning 'hole of dirt and water,' and the hill Manetto, a word for 'god,'\" and that they hunted in the area, often praying at the foot of Manetto Hill.[4]",
          "The Hempstead settler Robert Williams, originally of Wales, bought land west of the pond from the Matinecock in 1648, but the area's major European land acquisition came in 1695, when Thomas Powell's Bethpage Purchase extended settlement north to the pond.[4] A small farming community formed near the pond under the name Manetto Hill and \"remained isolated and insignificant for more than a century.\"[4]",
          "The 1837 arrival of the Long Island Rail Road at neighboring Hicksville opened Brooklyn, western Queens and New York City markets to Manetto Hill farmers, and a brickworks that opened in nearby Old Bethpage in the 1860s drew more people to the area.[4] In 1885 Manetto Hill's application for its own post office was rejected because another New York community had a similar name; the following year, in 1886, residents renamed their community Plainview \"because of the prairie vistas from the top of the hill.\"[4]",
          "Before an early-1900s blight destroyed its cucumber crop, Plainview was, per the same Newsday account, \"a major source of America's pickles, supplying works in Farmingdale and the big Heinz plant in Hicksville.\"[4] Farmers sold their land as the post-World War II housing boom arrived, and the area's population grew from 1,155 in 1950 to more than 35,000 within a decade.[4] A Town of Oyster Bay archival photograph documents the \"First Plainview Fire Department Parade, Labor Day, 1927.\"[1]"
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      {
        "id": "government",
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          "Criminal charges and smaller civil claims from Plainview go to the Nassau County District Court in Hempstead, which the state court system describes as deciding \"civil suits involving claims up to $15,000,\" handling \"misdemeanors and lesser offenses,\" and arraigning \"defendants accused of felonies.\"[10] Nassau County's Traffic & Parking Violations Agency, in Garden City, states its mission as \"the timely adjudication of all traffic, parking and photo enforcement related offenses.\"[12] Larger civil matters go to Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola.[11]"
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      {
        "text": "Plainview was known as Manetto Hill until 1886, when residents renamed it for the prairie views from its hilltop after a post office application under the old name was rejected in 1885.",
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      {
        "text": "The hamlet's namesake pond, Moscopas, was named by Native Americans for \"hole of dirt and water\"; the nearby hill's name, Manetto, meant \"god.\"",
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      {
        "text": "Before an early-1900s blight, Plainview was a major cucumber-growing area supplying pickle works in Farmingdale and the Heinz plant in Hicksville.",
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          4
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      {
        "text": "Plainview's population grew from 1,155 in 1950 to more than 35,000 within a decade, as postwar housing replaced farmland.",
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          4
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      },
      {
        "text": "A Town of Oyster Bay photograph documents the first Plainview Fire Department parade, held on Labor Day 1927.",
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        "id": 1,
        "title": "Town History",
        "publisher": "Town of Oyster Bay",
        "url": "https://oysterbaytown.com/town-history/",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
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        "title": "Plainview: A Holy Place for LI's Indians",
        "publisher": "Newsday",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080709004636/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-historytown-hist003g%2C0%2C6458689.story",
        "year": "2008 (capture date; original series undated)",
        "type": "newspaper"
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      {
        "id": 6,
        "title": "Code of the Town of Oyster Bay, Chapter 160, Notification of Defects",
        "publisher": "Town of Oyster Bay, via eCode360",
        "url": "https://ecode360.com/26876188",
        "year": "2003",
        "type": "government"
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        "id": 7,
        "title": "Highway (Highway Operations Department)",
        "publisher": "Town of Oyster Bay",
        "url": "https://oysterbaytown.com/departments/highway/",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
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        "id": 10,
        "title": "Nassau County District Court",
        "publisher": "New York State Unified Court System",
        "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/10th-jd-nassau/nassau-county-district-court",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "court"
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        "id": 11,
        "title": "Nassau County Supreme Court",
        "publisher": "New York State Unified Court System",
        "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/10th-jd-nassau/nassau-county-supreme-court",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "court"
      },
      {
        "id": 12,
        "title": "Traffic & Parking Violations Agency",
        "publisher": "Nassau County",
        "url": "https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/1928/Traffic-Parking-Violations-Agency",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 14,
        "title": "Plainview Hospital",
        "publisher": "Northwell Health",
        "url": "https://plainview.northwell.edu/",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "institution"
      },
      {
        "id": 16,
        "title": "Syosset Hospital",
        "publisher": "Northwell Health",
        "url": "https://syosset.northwell.edu/",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "institution"
      }
    ]
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    "census2020": {
      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb — 2020 Census tabulation geography (POP100, HU100, AREALAND)",
      "url": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Census2020/MapServer",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17"
    },
    "acs": {
      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates, tables B08303, B08013, B08301, B08302, B08201, B19013, B01002",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/",
      "period": "2020–2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "note": "Survey estimates with 90% margins of error. lowReliability = coefficient of variation above 30%."
    },
    "fars": {
      "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files",
      "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "preliminaryYears": [
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      ],
      "note": "Crashes on public trafficways in which a person died within 30 days. No personal identifiers. Placed by reported coordinates into 2020 Census boundaries."
    },
    "nys": {
      "name": "New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information: Four Year Window",
      "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe",
      "period": "2021–2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "note": "Police-reported crashes coded to a town, city or village by the reporting agency. Hamlets are not coded; hamlet pages show the parent town."
    }
  }
}