Whether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy.
Historian George Kirchmann takes readers on a historic journey of the Massapequas..
The postwar suburban boom resulted in tens of thousands of new residents by the late 1950s.
The founding of Fitzmaurice Flying Field made Massapequa Park a center for early American aviation in 1929.
Waves of European immigration in the nineteenth century brought a vibrant German enclave.
The first European settler, Thomas Jones, saw opportunity in the land filled with swamps, streams and sandy islands where other early Long Islanders did not.
The area\'s abundant supply of fish and fertile soils attracted early settlement by the Native American tribe known as the Marsapeags, who lived in the Place of Many Waters.
Whether as a town, village or hamlet, the communities of East Massapequa, North Massapequa, Massapequa Park and Massapequa proper all share a rich historic legacy
