Mineola Historical Society

05/22/2025

Our new website has launched! It is loaded with information - not only on history, but ways for you to become involved.

We will be adding features over time, so be sure to visit often.

The Mineola Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the history of our village.

11/04/2024

Featured here are a few more photos from our Historic Trolley Tour. Thank you to all our sponsors, who helped make the day a great success!

10/30/2024

The weather was beautiful for our recent Trolley Tour and Open House event. Over 90 people toured historic Mineola with us on four separate trolley runs. Members were on hand at the museum to chat with visitors, answer questions, sell books and raffles, and accept new memberships. Thank you to everyone who came out for a ride, and to all our sponsors who helped make the day a success!

09/07/2024

Our Historic Trolley Tour of Mineola is now sold out! Thank you for your support! Remember to visit our table during the street fair on Sunday, October 6th and our Open House on Sunday, October 20th. We'll see you there!

10/04/2023

07/29/2022

03/11/2021

Here is a follow up to our post on the loss of the Historical Substation that generated over 2500 views. Take a walk from the roof down two sets of spiral staircases to the basement floor. The substation was standing strong after 111 years serving the LIRR as a power facility and employee facility. It was knocked down for a pickup drop off area rather then being preserved and incorporated into the new station design.

03/09/2021

Unfortunately today we lost a historical 111 year old building at the location of Mineola’s original train station. LIRR Substation #8 was one of the last remaining buildings eligible to be a historical landmark in Mineola. As many of you know the society wanted to see this building persevered and incorporated into the redesign of our historical station. This building was standing strong after 111 years and is not in the path of the proposed third track. Instead it is being demolished for a “kiss and drop” area along the tracks. The society believes this drop off area could have been built in front of the substation on the old Hempstead Branch Row.

The society is now working with the project to preserve bricks and the keystones from the Substation. We will also look to incorporate a historical replica of the Hempstead Branch tracks that once laid in this area. The site is eligible for a NYS Marker for the Hempstead Branch.

06/26/2020

Unfortunately, we announce our disappointment with the MTA LIRR Third Track Project. A project we believe was needed for improvements. However, there has been no effort to work with us to preserve as much as we can of the Historical buildings they are demolishing. The society was promised tours of all 3 buildings they are demolishing. We were told we can request what we would like to inquire and preserve during these tours. Today the South Station House was demolished and we were never given the opportunity to photograph it and potentially request items in or of the building.

Additionally, they have not responded to our letters or emails. We have not been able to give them the petition many of you signed at the Mineola Street Fair.. we will reach out once again in an effort for items we are interested in for the Nassau Tower. And the saving of the Brick Substation that is not in the path of the Third Track. 

04/29/2020

July 2019

10/10/2019

Yesterday Members of the society Tom Murtha, Mike Marinak, Tom Redmond and Oyster Bay Railroad Museum secretary Gary Farkash worked on restoring the Nassau Tower Switch Board by reattaching the original timers the society has had in storage. The society is looking to continue its efforts to  minimize the historical loss at Mineola Station. The Nassau Tower is unfortunately slated to be demolished by the third track project. In prior proposals and stated in the Village of Mineola Master Plan the tower was to be moved and restored.

09/29/2019

Open House 1-4pm today!