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Elias Hicks married Jemima Seaman and moved to her family's farm in Jericho, where he became a nationally known Quaker preacher; Jericho's Quakers endured British troop quartering during the Revolutionary War while continuing to protest the war itself.[1] A Friends Meeting House, built in 1788, remains in use, and was followed by a Quaker school in 1793 and the Charity Society of Jericho and Westbury in 1794.[1] The Jericho Public Library credits Hicks's efforts with the local abolition of slavery in 1817.[1]", "A post office opened in 1802, and the 19th century brought a cider mill and the hamlet's first public elementary school in 1905, followed by the Jericho Water District in 1923 and a Volunteer Fire Department in 1938.[1] In the 1950s Phebe Underhill Seaman sold a large tract to developers, and Jericho grew quickly into the suburban community it is today; its water tower dates to 1952.[1]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "New York's official touring-route description carries NY 25 as Jericho Turnpike continuously from Queens through Nassau County, and separately routes NY 106 (with NY 107 running concurrently through the hamlet as \"Hicksville Road\"/Broadway) north from Hicksville through Jericho.[5] William K. Vanderbilt II's Long Island Motor Parkway, which opened its first section in 1908, hosted the Vanderbilt Cup auto races; a Town of Oyster Bay photograph caption places 1908 winner George Robertson approaching \"the famous turn at Jericho,\" and the parkway operated as a private toll road until 1938.[4][7]", "The hamlet's road network was reshaped in 1958, when the state Department of Transportation demolished the old hamlet center — remembered locally as \"Old Jericho\" — to widen Broadway (Routes 106/107) and build a cloverleaf interchange connecting it to Jericho Turnpike.[1] Jericho today sits at the convergence of the Long Island Expressway (I-495) and the Northern State Parkway with Jericho Turnpike and NY 106/107, an interchange complex that grew directly out of that 1958 project.[1]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "The Nassau County Police Department's Second Precinct, headquartered at 7700 Jericho Turnpike in neighboring Woodbury, lists Jericho among the hamlets inside its coverage area, which it describes as running \"from Old Country Road to the Long Island Sound and from east of the Wantagh State Parkway to the Suffolk County border.\"[3][6]", "As an unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Oyster Bay, criminal and smaller civil matters from Jericho go to Nassau County District Court at 99 Main Street, Hempstead, which \"decide[s] civil suits involving claims up to $15,000, handle[s] misdemeanors and lesser offenses, and arraign[s] defendants accused of felonies.\"[8] Larger civil cases go to Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola.[9]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Maine Maid Inn (4 Old Jericho Turnpike)", "designation": "Town of Oyster Bay designated landmark, dedicated May 15, 2012", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "name": "Friends Meeting House", "designation": "Built 1788; 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