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Floral ParkColumbia Encyclopedia entry: Floral Park
Floral Park, village (1990 pop. 15,947), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island, a residential suburb of New York City; inc. 1908. It has a commercial flower industry.
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Floral Park (redirected from Floral Park) is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. The population is 16,800 . The village is at the western border of Nassau County, and is located in both the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead. The neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens, home of the North Shore Towers, is adjacent to the village.
The area that is now Floral Park once marked the western edge of the great Hempstead Plains, and by some reports was initially known as Plainfield. Farms and tiny villages dominated the area through the 1870s when the development of the Long Island Rail Road and Jericho Turnpike cut through the area. Hinsdale had more...more »
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Mansfield. 1 Town (1990 pop. 20,634), Tolland co., NE Conn.; settled c.1692, inc. 1702. It is an agricultural and manufacturing town. The Univ. of Connecticut is in Storrs, which is included w...
