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History · Bethpage

Bethpage’s post office opened in 1875, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Durham's Chapel School.

1875first post office
1on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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How Bethpage began

When was Bethpage founded?

1875

The Bethpage post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 313151 years
Founding year: the first Bethpage post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Bethpage

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2006
Durham's Chapel School
Durham's Chapel School
Buildings
Durham's Chapel SchoolBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Bethpage’s post office has been open since 1875.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Old Bethpage
Gone or out of use
Bethpage Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Bethpage
Bethpape

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

BransfordIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Bethpage’s history

What year was Bethpage founded?

The Bethpage post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Bethpage?

One place: the Durham's Chapel School (listed 2006).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.