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Bethpage is a hamlet located on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States, as well as a census-designated place (CDP) with borders slightly different from those of the hamlet. The CDP's population was 16,429 at the 2010 United States Census.〔 The area is served by the Bethpage Post Office, ZIP code 11714, whose boundaries are slightly different from that of the CDP. The area is also served by the Bethpage Union Free School District, the boundaries of which include parts of some surrounding hamlets, including parts of Old Bethpage, Plainview, and Plainedge. The Town of Hempstead, on its website, includes a small part of Bethpage hamlet that is in the Levittown census-designated place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Town of Hempstead Map )〕 == History == The name ''Bethpage'' comes from the Quaker Thomas Powell, who named the area after the Biblical town Bethphage, which was between Jericho and Jerusalem in the Holy Land. Present-day Bethpage was part of the 1695 Bethpage Purchase. An early name for the northern section of present-day Bethpage was ''Bedelltown'',〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=1873 map of Town of Oyster Bay ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title =LIRR timeline: 1898 map used as background ) 〕 a name that appeared on maps at least as late as 1906.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title= 1906 map of Central Nassau County )〕 On maps just before the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the name ''Bethpage'' appears for a community now included in both the post office district and school district of the adjacent community of Farmingdale.〔 (The location marked ''Bethpage'' is near Merritts Road, just north of Hempstead Turnpike. An unbounded area further east in Suffolk County is marked ''Hardscrabble''. The map is dated 1842 with a question mark. Neither Farmingdale nor Hicksville appears on the map. The Hicksville LIRR station opened in 1837, and its absence suggests an earlier date for the map. The LIRR also had taken a different route east of Hicksville, arriving in Farmingdale in 1841.) 〕 In 1841,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early LIRR History ) 〕 train service began to Farmingdale station, near a new settlement less than a mile eastward from what had previously appeared on maps as ''Bethpage''. Schedules at that time do not mention Bethpage as a stop, but have a notation "late Bethpage".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1841 ''Brooklyn Eagle'' LIRR timetable ) (Whether "late Bethpage" is meant to indicate a flag stop at the community near Merritts Road, or that the area near the Farmingdale LIRR station had lately been called ''Bethpage'' has not yet been determined.) 〕 On an 1855 map,〔 〕 the location identified as ''Bethpage'' has shifted slightly westward to include a nearby area now called Plainedge. Between 1851〔 〕 and 1854,〔 〕 the LIRR initiated a stop within present-day Bethpage at a station then called ''Jerusalem Station'', and on January 29, 1857 a local post office opened, also named ''Jerusalem Station''.〔〔 Jerusalem was a community to the south, now called Wantagh. One of the reasons later given for changing the name from ''Jerusalem Station'' was that residents wanted to establish an identity of their own that did not depend on their being a station for another community. 〕 LIRR schedules listed the station also as simply ''Jerusalem''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 1863 LIRR timetable ) 〕〔 The schedule shows the stop is 2 miles from Farmingdale and 3 miles from Hicksville, the same distances for the existing Bethpage LIRR station as of . 〕 Residents succeeded in changing the name of the post office to ''Central Park'', effective March 1, 1867 (respelled as ''Centralpark'' from 1895 to 1899).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nassau County Post Offices 1794–1879 ) 〕〔 Central Park in Manhattan had opened in 1859. 〕 The Central Park Fire Company was organized in April 1910, and incorporated in May 1911. In May 1923 the Central Park Water District was created. Following the 1932 opening of nearby Bethpage State Park, the name of the local post office was changed to Bethpage on October 1, 1936. The name ''Bethpage'' was, however, already in use by an adjacent community,〔 which resisted suggestions of a merger and instead renamed itself Old Bethpage. The change from Central Park to Bethpage was one of the last complete name changes of Nassau County's post offices.〔 From 1936 until 1994, Bethpage was home to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which made, among other things, the F-14 Tomcat, the Navy version of the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) for moon landings, and for this reason Bethpage is mentioned in the film ''Apollo 13''. In 1994, Grumman was purchased by Northrop and formed Northrop Grumman. Although no longer headquartered in Bethpage, the company still retains operations there. The Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bethpage (NWIRP) started operations in 1942, west of the Grumman site. Cablevision Systems Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is headquartered in Grumman's former main office. In August 2015, a small airplane with engine trouble failed to reach Farmingdale airport, and was redirected to "Bethpage Airport" by the air traffic controller. However, the pilot could not find that airport because it was closed and had buildings on it, and the plane crashed on LIRR tracks.〔http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NTSB-Says-ATC-Directed-Pilot-In-Distress-To-Closed-Airport-224747-1.html〕〔http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20150816X95657&key=1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bethpage is a hamlet located on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States, as well as a census-designated place (CDP) with borders slightly different from those of the hamlet. The CDP's population was 16,429 at the 2010 United States Census.The area is served by the Bethpage Post Office, ZIP code 11714, whose boundaries are slightly different from that of the CDP. The area is also served by the Bethpage Union Free School District, the boundaries of which include parts of some surrounding hamlets, including parts of Old Bethpage, Plainview, and Plainedge. The Town of Hempstead, on its website, includes a small part of Bethpage hamlet that is in the Levittown census-designated place.(【引用サイトリンク】title=Town of Hempstead Map )== History ==The name ''Bethpage'' comes from the Quaker Thomas Powell, who named the area after the Biblical town Bethphage, which was between Jericho and Jerusalem in the Holy Land. Present-day Bethpage was part of the 1695 Bethpage Purchase. An early name for the northern section of present-day Bethpage was ''Bedelltown'',(【引用サイトリンク】title=1873 map of Town of Oyster Bay )(【引用サイトリンク】title =LIRR timeline: 1898 map used as background )a name that appeared on maps at least as late as 1906.(【引用サイトリンク】 title= 1906 map of Central Nassau County )On maps just before the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the name ''Bethpage'' appears for a community now included in both the post office district and school district of the adjacent community of Farmingdale.(The location marked ''Bethpage'' is near Merritts Road, just north of Hempstead Turnpike. An unbounded area further east in Suffolk County is marked ''Hardscrabble''. The map is dated 1842 with a question mark. Neither Farmingdale nor Hicksville appears on the map. The Hicksville LIRR station opened in 1837, and its absence suggests an earlier date for the map. The LIRR also had taken a different route east of Hicksville, arriving in Farmingdale in 1841.)In 1841,(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early LIRR History )train service began to Farmingdale station, near a new settlement less than a mile eastward from what had previously appeared on maps as ''Bethpage''. Schedules at that time do not mention Bethpage as a stop, but have a notation "late Bethpage".(【引用サイトリンク】title=1841 ''Brooklyn Eagle'' LIRR timetable ) (Whether "late Bethpage" is meant to indicate a flag stop at the community near Merritts Road, or that the area near the Farmingdale LIRR station had lately been called ''Bethpage'' has not yet been determined.)On an 1855 map,the location identified as ''Bethpage'' has shifted slightly westward to include a nearby area now called Plainedge.Between 1851and 1854,the LIRR initiated a stop within present-day Bethpage at a station then called ''Jerusalem Station'', and on January 29, 1857 a local post office opened, also named ''Jerusalem Station''.Jerusalem was a community to the south, now called Wantagh. One of the reasons later given for changing the name from ''Jerusalem Station'' was that residents wanted to establish an identity of their own that did not depend on their being a station for another community.LIRR schedules listed the station also as simply ''Jerusalem''.(【引用サイトリンク】title= 1863 LIRR timetable )The schedule shows the stop is 2 miles from Farmingdale and 3 miles from Hicksville, the same distances for the existing Bethpage LIRR station as of .Residents succeeded in changing the name of the post office to ''Central Park'', effective March 1, 1867 (respelled as ''Centralpark'' from 1895 to 1899).(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nassau County Post Offices 1794–1879 ) Central Park in Manhattan had opened in 1859.The Central Park Fire Company was organized in April 1910, and incorporated in May 1911. In May 1923 the Central Park Water District was created.Following the 1932 opening of nearby Bethpage State Park, the name of the local post office was changed to Bethpage on October 1, 1936. The name ''Bethpage'' was, however, already in use by an adjacent community, which resisted suggestions of a merger and instead renamed itself Old Bethpage. The change from Central Park to Bethpage was one of the last complete name changes of Nassau County's post offices.From 1936 until 1994, Bethpage was home to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which made, among other things, the F-14 Tomcat, the Navy version of the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) for moon landings, and for this reason Bethpage is mentioned in the film ''Apollo 13''. In 1994, Grumman was purchased by Northrop and formed Northrop Grumman. Although no longer headquartered in Bethpage, the company still retains operations there.The Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bethpage (NWIRP) started operations in 1942, west of the Grumman site.Cablevision Systems Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is headquartered in Grumman's former main office.In August 2015, a small airplane with engine trouble failed to reach Farmingdale airport, and was redirected to "Bethpage Airport" by the air traffic controller. However, the pilot could not find that airport because it was closed and had buildings on it, and the plane crashed on LIRR tracks.http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NTSB-Says-ATC-Directed-Pilot-In-Distress-To-Closed-Airport-224747-1.htmlhttp://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=20150816X95657&key=1」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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