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Nassau County splits off and Mineola becomes its seat
Mineola, New York
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When the western towns of Queens County voted themselves into Greater New York in 1898, the three eastern towns were left outside the city with a county government that no longer had a home. They were organised as Nassau County on the first day of 1899 and the seat was put at Mineola, a railroad village that had grown up where the Hempstead branch left the main line. The county offices actually sit just over the boundary in Garden City while still carrying a Mineola address, which has confused mail for a century.
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