Editing Inwood, New York (section)

== History ==
Inwood was first settled in 1600s.<ref name=":81">{{Cite book|last=Winsche|first=Richard|title=The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names|date=October 1, 1999|publisher=Empire State Books|isbn=978-1557871541|location=[[Interlaken, New York]]|pages=48–49}}</ref> Like many other nearby communities, the area was known as Near Rockaway.<ref name=":81" /> A meeting was held by the Town of Hempstead on January 16, 1663, and during that meeting, the name of what is now Inwood was changed to North West Point (also spelled as Northwest Point), named after its geographic position in relation to the more central part of [[Far Rockaway, Queens|Far Rockaway]], which it was then part of.<ref name=":81" /> It became the first area which was once known as Near Rockaway to be given its own name. Its original settlers were [[Jamaica Bay]] [[fishermen]], generally lawless and troublesome to other Rockaway residents. Soon after the [[American Civil War]], the area in 1871 became known as Westville. The Westville designation was used as the name of the community until residents petitioned for the [[United States Postal Service]] to establish a post office in the community. The post office refused as a [[Westville, New York|Westville]] already existed in [[Upstate New York]]. This led locals to change the community's name to Inwood in December 1888.<ref name=":81" /> This name received the most votes; the other proposed names included Bayhead, Springhaven, Radwayton, Elco, Raway, Pike's Peak, and Custer.<ref name=":81" /> By changing the community's name, the locals were able to get a post office for Inwood, which ultimately opened on February 25, 1889.<ref name=":81" />

Inwood's first post office closed after roughly 30 years of operation (''circa'' 1920), and it was not until 1949 that a new post office would open in the community – although an unsuccessful, earlier attempt to reopen it was made in 1932.<ref name=":81" />

The first true road in the area, the Inwood end of Lord Avenue, was built when the neighboring village of [[Lawrence, Nassau County, New York|Lawrence]] was developed.<ref name=":81" />

When the first [[post office]] in the village was established on February 25, 1889, the name of the village was changed to Inwood; a post office named Westville already existed in New York State. By the time of [[World War I]], a large part of Inwood's population was of [[Italian people|Italian]] and [[Albanians|Albanian]] extraction.<ref>[[Alfred H. Bellot|Bellot, Alfred H.]], ''History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917'', Bellot's Histories, Inc., Far Rockaway, NY, 1918</ref>

Inwood is home to the famous [[Inwood Country Club]], which was the site of the [[1921 PGA Championship]] – in addition to the [[1923 U.S. Open (golf)|1923 U.S. Open]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}