Original settler, Robert Jackson arrived from Stamford, CT in the winter of 1643. His decendants occupied this house through the early twentieth century. — — Map (db m200686) HM
President George Washington traveled near this site April 21, 1790, while touring Long Island to thank supporters of the war effort. — — Map (db m65074) HM
Land for the Jerusalem Friends Cemetery was purchased from William S. & Letitia Hicks on March 3, 1861, "For Burial Purposes". Descendants of Jerusalem's (Wantagh's) earliest inhabitants are interred within. — — Map (db m196644) HM
The Wantagh Baptist Church
formerly
The Jerusalem Friends Meeting House
This area, known as Jerusalem
by 1699, was settles by Quakers. They
met at Jericho and Bethpage, and in
1827 built this meeting house.
Nassau County . . . — — Map (db m196642) HM
