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=== Before the village === In 1643, John Carman and Robert Fordham sailed across the [[Long Island Sound]] from [[Stamford, Connecticut]] and purchased the land that is now occupied by the Towns of [[Hempstead (town), New York|Hempstead]] and [[North Hempstead, New York|North Hempstead]] from the Native Americans.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Village of East Hills History|url=http://www.villageofeasthills.org/village_history.html|access-date=October 7, 2017|publisher=villageofeasthills.org}}</ref> This land included what is now East Hills.<ref name=":0" /> For a long time, much of what now is East Hills was home to a few wealthy families.<ref name=":0" /> In 1898, [[Clarence Mackay|Clarence]] and [[Katherine Duer Mackay|Katherine]] Mackay settled in present-day East Hills and would eventually commission [[Stanford White]] to design their mansion, [[Harbor Hill]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1924, the [[Prince of Wales]], who later abdicated the throne of England to marry Mrs. Simpson, was entertained at the Mackay estate. Aviation pioneer [[Charles Lindbergh|Charles A. Lindbergh]] rested at the Mackay estate in 1927 after returning to the United States following his historic solo flight to Paris, France.<ref name=":0" />
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