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      "officialName": "Elwood",
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          "name": "North Dix Hills (also called Upper Dix Hills)",
          "note": "Name of the area north of Jericho Turnpike before its post office was renamed Elwood in 1870, per the Town Historian.",
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        "text": "Unresolved. The Town Historian describes the origin as \"a mystery\": a 1974 guess in The Long-Islander that the hamlet was named for landowner Elkanah Wood does not hold up, because no Wood landholding appears on an 1873 atlas of the area and Elkanah Wood himself was not born until 1871, a year after the Elwood post office had already opened.",
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        "text": "No settlement date is established. The name dates to the renaming of a North Dix Hills post office as \"Elwood\" in 1870, and by 1874 Richard M. Bayles's county history already described it as \"a scattered settlement of farmers lately named Elwood.\"",
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        "value": "Unincorporated hamlet of the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County; tabulated separately by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Elwood CDP",
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        "label": "Name origin",
        "value": "Unresolved; the Town Historian calls it \"a mystery\"",
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        "label": "Former name",
        "value": "North/Upper Dix Hills, until the area's post office was renamed Elwood in 1870",
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        "label": "Police",
        "value": "Suffolk County Police Department, 2nd Precinct, 1071 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743, (631) 854-8200",
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      {
        "label": "Nearest hospital",
        "value": "Huntington Hospital (Northwell Health), 270 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743, (631) 351-2000; Level III adult trauma center",
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        "label": "School district",
        "value": "Elwood Union Free School District, whose high school is John H. Glenn High School",
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        "label": "Civic association",
        "value": "Elwood Civic Association, founded 1945 as the Elwood Taxpayers Association; renamed June 2019",
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        "date": "1653",
        "label": "Huntington settled",
        "text": "The Town of Huntington, in which Elwood lies, was \"originally settled in 1653.\"",
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        "date": "1870",
        "label": "Name change announced",
        "text": "A Huntington-area resident's letter recorded the change in a postscript: \"They have changed the name of Dix Hills. The name is Elwood now.\"",
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        "date": "1870-06-07",
        "label": "Elwood post office opens",
        "text": "A post office was established in North Dix Hills under the name Elwood.",
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      {
        "date": "1871-02-10",
        "label": "Dix Hills post office folded in",
        "text": "The Long-Islander reported that the Postmaster General had ordered the separate Dix Hills post office discontinued, with its mail transferred to the Elwood post office.",
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      {
        "date": "1874",
        "label": "Bayles describes Elwood",
        "text": "Richard M. Bayles's county history described Elwood as a scattered farming settlement about two miles square, with roughly thirty dwellings, a school, a Methodist church, and a recently closed steam grist-mill.",
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        "date": "1869",
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        "date": "1902-10-31",
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        "text": "The Elwood post office was discontinued.",
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        "date": "1904",
        "label": "New hilltop schoolhouse",
        "text": "A larger schoolhouse on a hilltop site replaced the 1869 building; construction and the move are dated 1904-1915 by the district's own history.",
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      {
        "date": "1932",
        "label": "Schoolhouse plumbing added",
        "text": "Indoor plumbing was added to the Elwood schoolhouse, which had used outhouses until then.",
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      {
        "date": "1945",
        "label": "Civic association founded",
        "text": "The Elwood Taxpayers Association (later the Elwood Civic Association) was founded; it became, in its own account, the longest continuously active civic organization in Town of Huntington history.",
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      {
        "date": "2002-10-15",
        "label": "Prior written notice law adopted",
        "text": "The Huntington Town Board adopted Chapter 174 of the town code, requiring prior written notice of highway, street, sidewalk and crosswalk defects before the Town can be sued over them.",
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      {
        "date": "2011-02-01",
        "label": "Winter exception added",
        "text": "A local law amended Chapter 174 to exempt the Town from liability for highway defects between November 15 and May 1, regardless of notice.",
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          19
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      },
      {
        "date": "2019-06",
        "label": "Civic group renamed",
        "text": "The Elwood Taxpayers Association dropped \"Taxpayers\" from its name, becoming the Elwood Civic Association.",
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        "id": "history",
        "heading": "History",
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          "Elwood is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County; the Town's own description of its government lists it among \"several prominent unincorporated areas\" alongside Cold Spring Harbor, Huntington Station and Greenlawn.[1] The Town of Huntington itself was \"originally settled in 1653.\"[2] The U.S. Census Bureau tabulates the hamlet separately as the Elwood census-designated place.[21]",
          "By 1874, Richard M. Bayles's county history placed the hamlet a short distance from a smaller vicinity called Cuba: \"a mile and a half further still and bearing a little eastward is a scattered settlement of farmers lately named Elwood.\"[3] Bayles fixed its extent at \"two miles square,\" occupied by about thirty dwellings, with a school and a Methodist church inside its limits, and noted that a steam grist-mill built there \"a few years ago\" had already been removed \"for want of support.\"[4] Cuba Hill Road, which meets Elwood Road in the hamlet today, still carries the name of that neighboring vicinity.[3]",
          "How the hamlet came to be called Elwood is unresolved. A local woman's letter announcing her 1870 engagement recorded the change in a postscript: \"They have changed the name of Dix Hills. The name is Elwood now.\"[5] A post office under the name Elwood duly opened in North Dix Hills on June 7, 1870, and a notice in the February 10, 1871 Long-Islander reported that the older, separate Dix Hills post office was being discontinued with its mail transferred to Elwood's; the Elwood office itself operated until October 31, 1902.[6] The Town Historian, who has researched Huntington's history for thirty years, calls the source of the name \"a mystery\": a 1974 guess in The Long-Islander that it honored landowner Elkanah Wood is undercut because \"there was indeed an Elkanah Wood, he wasn't born until 1871, a year after the post office was established,\" and no Wood landholding appears on an 1873 atlas of the area.[7]",
          "Elwood's first school was \"a wooden structure with one room, built in 1869,\" where students fetched water from a nearby pond and tended the stove for heat, according to a history maintained through the Elwood Union Free School District's own website; a larger hilltop schoolhouse replaced it in 1904-1915, and indoor plumbing was not added until 1932.[9] The district, whose high school is John H. Glenn High School, today describes Elwood as \"a distinguished Long Island hamlet affectionately known as the 'Heart of Huntington.'\"[8]",
          "The Elwood Taxpayers Association, founded in 1945, became, in a 2019 newspaper account, \"the longest active civic organization in Huntington Town history\"; it operated under that name for more than sixty years before dropping \"Taxpayers\" in June 2019 to become the Elwood Civic Association.[10] Its officers describe the school district as the hamlet's unifying institution, noting that Elwood is \"comprised of three ZIP codes, two fire districts, two legislative districts,\" and that the group had partnered with John Glenn High School to fund a community-service scholarship.[11]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "roads",
        "heading": "How the roads got here",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Suffolk County's official road inventory lists Elwood Road, the hamlet's principal street, as County Road 10, running from \"NYS RT 25, Jericho Tpke to NYS RT 25A, Fort Salonga Rd\" — meaning the road that gives the hamlet its name is a county highway for its entire length, not a state or town road.[12] The same inventory lists Pulaski Road, which crosses the hamlet's north side, as County Road 11, from \"NYS RT 108, Harbor Rd to NYS RT 25A, Main St.\"[13]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "government",
        "heading": "Government, courts and policing",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Elwood has no government of its own. Policing is provided by the Suffolk County Police Department's 2nd Precinct, headquartered at \"1071 Park Ave, Huntington\" ((631) 854-8200), whose command states that it \"proudly serves the residents of the Town of Huntington,\" which includes Elwood.[15][16] The nearest hospital is Huntington Hospital, part of Northwell Health, at \"270 Park Avenue Huntington, NY 11743\" ((631) 351-2000); the New York State Department of Health lists it as a Level III adult trauma center.[17][18]",
          "Since October 15, 2002, Chapter 174 of the Huntington Town Code has barred civil suits against the Town over a defective highway, street, sidewalk or crosswalk unless the Town Clerk or the Superintendent of Highways first received actual written notice of the specific defect; the law is written to be \"requiring prior written notice of a defect and/or obstruction for a street, sidewalk and crosswalk,\" and it states plainly that \"constructive notice shall not be applicable or valid.\"[19] A 2011 amendment added an exception freeing the Town from liability for highway defects between November 15 and May 1 regardless of notice.[19] Elsewhere in the code, \"sidewalk maintenance and repair are the responsibility of the adjoining property owner pursuant to Town Code Chapter 173.\"[20]"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "legalCases": [],
    "landmarks": [
      {
        "name": "Elwood's \"Little Red Schoolhouse\" (built 1869)",
        "designation": "No state or national register listing verified; preserved as a district-linked local history site",
        "src": [
          9
        ]
      }
    ],
    "notableFacts": [
      {
        "text": "A Huntington-area woman's 1870 letter announcing her engagement carried a postscript about her hometown's new name: \"They have changed the name of Dix Hills. The name is Elwood now.\"",
        "src": [
          5
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "Elwood's post office operated under that name from June 7, 1870 until it was discontinued on October 31, 1902.",
        "src": [
          6
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "A long-told story that Elwood was named for landowner Elkanah Wood is undercut by the fact that he \"wasn't born until 1871, a year after the post office was established.\"",
        "src": [
          7
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "In 1874, Elwood was described as \"a scattered settlement of farmers,\" two miles square, with about thirty houses, a school, a Methodist church, and a steam grist-mill that had already failed \"for want of support.\"",
        "src": [
          4
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "Elwood Road, the hamlet's main street, is Suffolk County Road 10; Pulaski Road, on its north side, is County Road 11 -- both are county, not town or state, highways.",
        "src": [
          12,
          13
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "The Elwood Civic Association, founded in 1945, is described in its own account as the longest continuously active civic organization in Town of Huntington history; it dropped \"Taxpayers\" from its name only in June 2019.",
        "src": [
          10
        ]
      },
      {
        "text": "Since 2002, Huntington's town code has barred lawsuits over a defective road or sidewalk unless the Town received actual prior written notice of the exact defect first -- \"constructive notice shall not be applicable or valid.\"",
        "src": [
          19
        ]
      }
    ],
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      {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "About Huntington",
        "publisher": "Town of Huntington",
        "url": "https://www.huntingtonny.gov/content/13747/99540/13817/default.aspx",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "title": "About Huntington",
        "publisher": "Town of Huntington",
        "url": "https://www.huntingtonny.gov/content/13747/99540/13817/default.aspx",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 3,
        "title": "Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County, p. 166 (Town of Huntington chapter)",
        "publisher": "Richard M. Bayles / Internet Archive",
        "url": "https://archive.org/download/ny-suffolk-1874-bayles/ny-suffolk-1874-bayles_djvu.txt",
        "year": "1874",
        "type": "book"
      },
      {
        "id": 4,
        "title": "Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County, p. 166 (Town of Huntington chapter)",
        "publisher": "Richard M. Bayles / Internet Archive",
        "url": "https://archive.org/download/ny-suffolk-1874-bayles/ny-suffolk-1874-bayles_djvu.txt",
        "year": "1874",
        "type": "book"
      },
      {
        "id": 5,
        "title": "By Any Other Name",
        "publisher": "Huntington History (Robert C. Hughes, Town of Huntington Historian)",
        "url": "https://huntingtonhistory.com/2011/04/12/by-any-other-name/",
        "year": "2011",
        "type": "reference"
      },
      {
        "id": 6,
        "title": "By Any Other Name",
        "publisher": "Huntington History (Robert C. Hughes, Town of Huntington Historian)",
        "url": "https://huntingtonhistory.com/2011/04/12/by-any-other-name/",
        "year": "2011",
        "type": "reference"
      },
      {
        "id": 7,
        "title": "By Any Other Name",
        "publisher": "Huntington History (Robert C. Hughes, Town of Huntington Historian)",
        "url": "https://huntingtonhistory.com/2011/04/12/by-any-other-name/",
        "year": "2011",
        "type": "reference"
      },
      {
        "id": 8,
        "title": "About",
        "publisher": "Elwood Union Free School District",
        "url": "https://www.elwoodufsd.org/about",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 9,
        "title": "Origins",
        "publisher": "The Elwood Schoolhouse (linked from the Elwood Union Free School District's own site as its 'Little Red Schoolhouse' history)",
        "url": "https://sites.google.com/view/theelwoodschoolhouse/origins",
        "year": "2022",
        "type": "reference"
      },
      {
        "id": 10,
        "title": "Elwood Seeks to Reinvigorate Community Involvement",
        "publisher": "TBR News Media (Times of Huntington-Northport)",
        "url": "https://tbrnewsmedia.com/elwood-seeks-to-reinvigorate-community-involvement/",
        "year": "2019",
        "type": "newspaper"
      },
      {
        "id": 11,
        "title": "Elwood Seeks to Reinvigorate Community Involvement",
        "publisher": "TBR News Media (Times of Huntington-Northport)",
        "url": "https://tbrnewsmedia.com/elwood-seeks-to-reinvigorate-community-involvement/",
        "year": "2019",
        "type": "newspaper"
      },
      {
        "id": 12,
        "title": "Suffolk County Roads List",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Department of Public Works",
        "url": "https://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Portals/0/formsdocs/publicworks/PDF/Suffolk%20County%20Roads%20List.pdf",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 13,
        "title": "Suffolk County Roads List",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Department of Public Works",
        "url": "https://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Portals/0/formsdocs/publicworks/PDF/Suffolk%20County%20Roads%20List.pdf",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 15,
        "title": "Second Precinct",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Police Department",
        "url": "https://suffolkpd.org/Precincts-and-Specialized-Units/Precincts/Second-Precinct",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 16,
        "title": "Phone Directory",
        "publisher": "Suffolk County Police Department",
        "url": "https://suffolkpd.org/Contact-Us/Phone-Directory",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 17,
        "title": "Huntington Hospital (home page)",
        "publisher": "Northwell Health",
        "url": "https://huntington.northwell.edu/",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "institution"
      },
      {
        "id": 18,
        "title": "New York State Trauma Centers",
        "publisher": "New York State Department of Health",
        "url": "https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/ems/state_trauma/trauma2.htm",
        "year": "n.d.",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 19,
        "title": "Chapter 174: Liability of Town, Article I: Written Notice of Defects",
        "publisher": "Town of Huntington / General Code (eCode360)",
        "url": "https://www.ecode360.com/7228121",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 20,
        "title": "Highway Department",
        "publisher": "Town of Huntington",
        "url": "https://www.huntingtonny.gov/highway",
        "year": "2026",
        "type": "government"
      },
      {
        "id": 21,
        "title": "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Places, New York (2020_gaz_place_36.txt)",
        "publisher": "U.S. Census Bureau",
        "url": "https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_36.txt",
        "year": "2020",
        "type": "government"
      }
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      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb — 2020 Census tabulation geography (POP100, HU100, AREALAND)",
      "url": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Census2020/MapServer",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17"
    },
    "acs": {
      "name": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Estimates, tables B08303, B08013, B08301, B08302, B08201, B19013, B01002",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/",
      "period": "2020–2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "note": "Survey estimates with 90% margins of error. lowReliability = coefficient of variation above 30%."
    },
    "fars": {
      "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files",
      "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
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      "note": "Crashes on public trafficways in which a person died within 30 days. No personal identifiers. Placed by reported coordinates into 2020 Census boundaries."
    },
    "nys": {
      "name": "New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information: Four Year Window",
      "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe",
      "period": "2021–2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "note": "Police-reported crashes coded to a town, city or village by the reporting agency. Hamlets are not coded; hamlet pages show the parent town."
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}
