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BETHB»GE ££THPAG£ PHD, «* ,
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BETHPAGE LIB
47 POWELL AV
BE THPAGE NY I I 7 I 4
OLDBETHWOE
also serving ISLAND TREES
PLAINVIEW PLAINEDGE SEAFORD
VOL. 14 NO. 6 Thursday, July 26,1979 20 cants par copy
Vacationing In Bethphage
Dr. Gerry Gregorian (above) left Bethpage
and traveled 6,800 miles to vacation, in jfert,
in Bethphage. Bethphage, Israel. Our Beth-page,
which has been misspelled for 290
years, was named after this small village
which is half-way between Jericho and
(Jerusalem
When Thomas Powell made the Bethphage
Purchase in 1687, he noted the land lay between
Jericho and Jerusalem (Wantagh).
Powell knew his King James Version of the
bible and so named the land accordingly. It
remained for some slacker in a village inn
(circa 1699) to leave out the second H, but
then, some years later, local residents would
leave out the whole name.
The original Bethphage was pronounced,
Beth-lay-gee, so maybe we owe that fellow in
the inn a debt of gratitude after all. In the
early 1700s, Bethpage was much larger than it
is today.'The property was a tract of land
three and one-half miles wide, running east to
west, and five miles deep.
The northern tip was flanked by Mannetto
hill and the Round Pond swamp. The west
took in all of Island Trees and a nice slice of
Levittown. The southern border must have
been a throw-in from the Indians, as it was
just a Plain Edge.
It's too bad an ancestor of Horace Greeley
wasn't around then to mutter, "Take thee
east young'st man", because Bethpage's
eastern boundary extended well into Suffolk
County. Farmingdale came along much later.
After acquiring a good portion of our land
Farmingdale would also try to take our name
away. Some neighbor.
But then, perhaps Farmingdale thought we
didn't deserve the name we had thrown away.
In the early 1700s most settlers referred to the
area as the Great Plain. Of course they were
dealing with the indians and the indians had
called the area the Great Plain for centuries.
Then in the early 1800s the southern end of
Bethpage was referred to as the Plain Edge.
In the mid 1800s the northern part of town
took on the name Bedelltown, pronounced
Beadle by the residents and beetletown by
everyone else on Long Island.
But then, when the railroad came through,
the weisenheimers in charge of the LIRR,
saw that none of the residents knew anything
about names, so they dubbed the town,
Jerusalem Station, after a town six miles
south.
Too much.1 The residents of beetletown got
together with the poor folk at Plain Edge and
together with the people by the railroad
tracks on Broadway in Jerusalem Station
(Continued on Page 8)
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| Title | Bethpage-Tribune_1979-07-26 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within Bethpage, Old Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge and Seaford. Florence Cullem |
| Creator | Florence Cullem |
| Publisher | Florence cullem |
| Contributors | Scanned and prepared by Hudson Microimaging, Port Ewen, New york 12466. |
| Date | 2010 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Bethpage Public Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | The Newspaper is in the public Domain and Digital Rights Held by Bethpage Public Library. |
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