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| | Long Island History: Hicksville |
 | | Initially, no one saw the attraction of this station in the middle of nowhere, but by 1849 German and Irish refugees began farming nearby and drilling wells for water, and Hicksville turned out to be a convenient depot for produce. |
 | | The German population was so strong that Hicksville's first newspaper, in 1873, the Long Island Central Zeitung, was printed in German. |
 | | In the 1940s, that crop, too, was blighted, but the post-World War II building boom bailed out farmers and by 1959 had transformed Hicksville into a bustling suburb. |
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