New Cassel, New York

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The early settlers of this area were Quakers and like many other landowners throughout the colonies, owned slaves. In 1775, compelled by their religious beliefs, the Quakers freed all 154 African-Americans that they had enslaved. Many of these freed men and women built their own homesteads on the open land near the sheep grazing pastures. Their new community consisted of farms and dairies in the area now known as New Cassel.

New Cassel is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in the Town of North Hempstead, NY.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cassel,_New_York
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Coordinates:   40°45'39"N   73°33'56"W

Comments

  • It's not as bad as people claim it is, but not the best either.
  • As a white, born and raised in Westbury, I've seen the transformation of New Cassel over the years. It was a sleepy quiet African-American area for many years, but did become somewhat of a troublesome area in the late 1950s until about 1990. But today still predominately Africa-American much safer and family oriented. Some of the surrounding area, within the Village of Westbury, consists of some of the most upscale African-American neighborhoods on Long Island.
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