Editing Dix Hills, New York (section)

== History ==
Settlers traded goods with the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous]] Secatogue tribe for the land that became Dix Hills in 1699. The Secatogues lived in the northern portion of the region during the later half of that century. The land was known as Dick's Hills. By lore, the name traces to a local native named Dick Pechegan, likely of the Secatogues.<ref name="NYT If You're Thinking 1993" />{{refn|group=note|Pechegan's name appeared on a 1692 deed to William Massey.<ref name=Tooker/>}} Scholar William Wallace Tooker wrote that the addition of the English name "Dick" to the indigenous name "Pechegan" was a common practice.

Tooker wrote that Pechegan's [[wigwam]] and his planted fields became the hilly area's namesake, known as the shortened "Dix Hills" by 1911.<ref name="Tooker" /> The area was mostly used for farming until after [[World War II]].<ref name="NYT If You're Thinking 1993" />

In the 1950s, Dix Hills and its neighbors [[Wheatley Heights, New York|Wheatley Heights]] and [[Melville, New York|Melville]], along with the area known as Sweet Hollow, [[Half Hollow Hills, New York|proposed to incorporate]] as a single village.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=February 6, 1955|title=HUGE NEW VILLAGE ASKED IN SUFFOLK; It Would Take in 50 Square Miles in Huntington and Babylon Townships|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/02/06/archives/huge-new-village-asked-in-suffolk-it-would-take-in-50-square-miles.html|access-date=July 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=February 13, 1955|title=Talks on Proposed Village Due|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/02/13/archives/talks-on-proposed-village-due.html|access-date=July 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> This village would have been known as the Incorporated Village of Half Hollow Hills, would have had an area of roughly {{Convert|50|mi2|km2}}, and would have embraced the [[Half Hollow Hills Central School District|Half Hollow Hills Central School District (CSD 5)]].<ref name=":0" /> The plans were unsuccessful, and these areas would remain unincorporated.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Long Island Index: Interactive Map|url=http://www.longislandindexmaps.org/?zoom=0&x=1313564&y=266122.5&code=53264&tab=tabServiceProviders&satellite=false&landuse=true&landuseopacity=0.8&mainlayers=Fire_boundary,LIE,ParkwayMainRd,VillageBoundaryUninc,VillageBoundaryInc,TownsCities&labellayers=Fire_boundary,VillageBoundaryUninc,VillageBoundaryInc,TownsCities,LIE&serviceproviderlayers=|access-date=July 10, 2021|website=longislandindexmaps.org}}</ref>

Proposals were revived around 2001, when Dix Hills, Melville, [[Wheatley Heights, New York|Wheatley Heights]], and [[East Farmingdale, New York|East Farmingdale]] (all within the school district) proposed incorporating as a single village.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kutt Nahas|first=Donna|date=July 27, 2003|title=Villages, Inc.: Hamlets Across the Island Weigh the Cost-Benefit Ratio of Incorporation|work=The New York Times|via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref> These plans also failed and each remains unincorporated hamlets to this day.<ref name=":1" />