Editing New Cassel, New York (section)

== History ==
New Cassel was one of the first free African American communities on Long Island.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hofstra.edu/library/libspc/libspc_lisi_blackhistory.html |title=Black History on Long Island |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Hofstra.edu |publisher=Hofstra University |access-date=April 10, 2024 }}</ref> It was founded by a group of formerly enslaved African American farmers in the mid 1700s.<ref name=NYTimesNCLI>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/realestate/28Living.html |title=A Hamlet on the Long Road to Renewal |last=Fischler |first=Marcelle S. |date=November 24, 2010 |website=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=April 10, 2024}}</ref><ref name=HoftstraNCLI>{{cite web |url=https://news.hofstra.edu/2010/09/05/against-formidable-odds-community-revitalization-in-new-cassel-new-york/ |title=Against Formidable Odds: Community Revitalization in New Cassel, New York |author=Allison, Mary Ann |date=September 5, 2010 |website=news@Hofstra |publisher=Hofstra University |access-date=April 10, 2024}}</ref> About the time of the close of the [[American Revolutionary War]], Hessian settlers, mostly from [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel|Hesse-Cassel]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and who chose not to return Europe, and settled throughout the area, as well; this gave rise to New Cassel's name, which was chosen in honor of the part of Hesse from which most had come.<ref name=":81" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The History of the Village of Westbury |url=https://www.villageofwestbury.org/history |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=www.villageofwestbury.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="p40">Panczyk (2007), p. 40</ref> 

When the adjacent village of [[Westbury, New York|Westbury]] incorporated in 1932, New Cassel residents chose not to have the hamlet be absorbed by the new municipality, over fears that taxes would rise.<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=}}</ref> As such, it would remain an unincorporated hamlet directly governed by the Town of North Hempstead in [[Manhasset, New York|Manhasset]].<ref name=":81" /><ref>{{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=2021-09-07|website=www.longislandindexmaps.org}}</ref>

After [[World War II]], New Cassel became home to a great number of successful middle class families, including many Black and Latino veterans.<ref name="NYTimesNCLI" /> By the second half of the 20th century, New Cassel had become home to a growing number of Haitian and Latino families.<ref name="HoftstraNCLI" />