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The History of Melville and Farmingdale
Melville:
Melville, once at the intersection of two paths created by Native Americans, has grown into a bustling corporate center. One of the paths, Neguntalogue Road, became heavily travelled and over the course of time became Route 110.
Melville was a farming community, but during the first half of the Twentieth Century, many of the farms were sold and the land was used to build corporate office buildings and industrial parks. Melville is currently home to such companies as Newsday, Swissair and Arrow Electronics.
For more information, visit Long Island Our Story - Melville.
Farmingdale:
Farmingdale was part of fifteen square miles of land that Thomas Powell purchased from the Marsapeque Tribe in 1695. For more than a century, the land was farmed. As the community grew, a tavern, a gristmill and other small businesses were established. In 1845, Ambrose George had purchased several
acres of land, created sub-divisions, laid out streets and changed the name of the community from Hardscrabble to Farmingdale. Over the course of several decades, industry began to move to Farmingdale and a brickworks, a lumberyard and six pickle farms were established.
Industrialization took place rapidly in Farmingdale, with many of the area farms having been bought out and replaced with aircraft companies in the years after the First World War. For more information, visit
Long Island Our Story - Farmingdale.
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