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6 unusual facts about Hempstead


1970 ascariasis poisoning incident

At least seven people claimed to have been infected with parasitic worm eggs by Eric Kranz, a former postgraduate student from Hempstead, New York.

Harry Holtzman

1939: After England declares war on September 3, 1939, Mondrian flees his studio in Hempstead and stays with Ben Nicolson and Barbara Hepworth in Cornwall, where they have just fled.

Hempstead, Kent

This newsagents later became a 'Forbuoys' (now part of the RS McColl group).

It is located on the southern edge of the borough of Medway adjacent to Wigmore and Lordswood and linked to Gillingham and the M2 by the A278 trunk road.

Jeremiah Dyke

His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall; and Daniel Dyke was his brother.

West Hempstead Branch

The West Hempstead Branch was the indirect successor to the old South Side Railroad's Southern Hempstead Branch, which ran a similar route north from Valley Stream to Hempstead, before being torn up in the 1880s.


Brent Barry

Barry, born in Hempstead, New York, is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry, and was arguably the best player of the four basketball-playing Barry sons, the others being Scooter, Jon and Drew.

David Chiu

David Jung-Kuang Chiu, dean of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, United States until 2001

Fields End

Neighbouring towns are the Hemel Hempstead district of Warner's End and the villages of Potten End and Little Heath.

Heath Park Halt railway station

In 1920, the townspeople of Hemel Hempstead were presented with a battlefield tank by the National War Savings Committee in recognition of their contribution to the war effort during World War I.

Hemel Hempstead Gazette

The Hemel Hempstead Gazette is part of Premier Newspapers Ltd which itself is part of the Johnston Press group of local newspapers.

Highfield, Hertfordshire

It was constructed on a green field site as part of the construction of the postwar newtown expansion of Hemel Hempstead.

Jon Kaiman

He also led North Hempstead to green its vehicle fleet by purchasing hybrid and electric vehicles vehicles for the town.

Lake Success, New York

Sumitomo Corporation operates its Lake Success Shared Services Center in Suite 220 at 1999 Marcus Avenue in an area in the Town of North Hempstead, south of Lake Success.

Marshall Earle Reid

On May 4, 1912 he started from Hempstead, Long Island intending to fly to Philadelphia.

Melville, New York

Around 2002 Swiss International Air Lines's North American headquarters moved from Melville to Uniondale in the town of Hempstead.

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

The Moisant Aviation School was a school in the early days of aviation founded by Alfred Moisant at Hempstead, Long Island, New York.

New York Lizards

The team's name and logo are based on the Italian wall lizard, a small reptile that was imported to Long Island (which has no native lizards) in the 1960s and which populate areas of the team's home town of Hempstead.

Robert Barra

He has worked for the Nassau County Department of Commerce, the North Hempstead Town Board, the Nassau Board of Elections, former congressman David A. Levy, and the Nassau Republican Party.

Rosa Parks Hempstead Transit Center

On February 14, 2006, Nassau County Executive, Thomas Suozzi announced that Hempstead Transit Center would be renamed in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

The Lighthouse Project

On July 12, 2010, Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray announced an “alternate zone” created for the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum property, downsizing the original Lighthouse Project to half its proposed size and making the Project, according to the developers, "economically unviable for both the developer and owner of the site."

Tony McWalter

McWalter won the Hemel Hempstead seat from Robert Jones (Conservative) in 1997 and held it in 2001, and was narrowly defeated by 499 votes by Mike Penning, (Conservative) in 2005.

West Hempstead, New York

Nathan Englander, American short story writer and novelist, was born and raised in West Hempstead.


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