Port Washington is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County. The Port Washington Sandbank was the largest east of the Mississippi and was accessible by barge from Manhattan in the 1870s. Over 140 million cubic yards of local sand were used for New York skyscrapers (including the Empire State and Chrysler buildings) and the New York City subway. The North Hempstead sand mines were redeveloped as Harbor Links in 1998.
Port Washington tried to incorporate itself as a city in 1930, with boundaries similar to the Port Washington Union Free School District, excluding Sands Point, which had already incorporated itself as a village.
Below are some historical photos of Port Washington Houses in the 1940s taken from Port Washington Public Library.
