Editing Thomaston, New York (section)

=== Thomaston's name ===
The name Thomaston has been used to describe the area since the middle part of the 19th Century.<ref name=":81" /> [[William Russell Grace|William R. Grace]], a prominent local who would eventually become the Mayor of [[New York City]], acquired a large area of land around the [[Long Island Rail Road]]'s [[Great Neck station]]; the land he acquired included all of present-day [[Great Neck Plaza, New York|Great Neck Plaza]]. Grace named the area Thomaston after the ancestral home of his wife, Lillian Gilchrist, located in Maine.<ref name=":81" />

At some point, that area's name was changed to Great Neck Plaza, which would ultimately stick and become the name that village incorporated under in 1930.<ref name=":81" />

When the area now known as Thomaston decided to incorporate itself as a village the next year, the residents chose to use this name for their new village since members of the Grace family continued to own land in the area.<ref name=":81" />