Floral Park Wedding

Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. The population was 15,967 at the 2000 census. The village is at the western border of Nassau County, and is located in both the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead. The neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens is adjacent to the village.

Floral Park was known as East Hinsdale in 1874, when John Lewis Childs arrived there to work for C.L. Allen as a seed seller. After building his own seed and bulb business, and starting America's first seed catalogue business, Childs bought the land around the Hinsdale Post Office; to promote his own business and the local horticultural industry, Childs named the local streets after flowers and renamed the area Floral Park. The Post Office--its work dominated by Childs' catalogue busines--soon took the Floral Park name, and the Long Island Railroad followed suit by changing the name of the East Hinsdale station to Floral Park in 1888. Formerly part of Queens, New York, Floral Park became part of the new county of Nassau in 1899, and it was incorporated as a village, with Childs as its president, in 1908.