Hicksville

With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area's 1648 land purchase from Native Americans and associations with Elias Hicks, the Jericho antislavery leader, to its transformation into a thriving twentieth—century Long Island suburb of New York City. Through evocative images and insightful text, we learn how the Long Island Railroad was dead—ended here in the Panic of 1837 and how German immigrants created a village and vacation spa i...