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Rockville Centre is a village located in New York\'s Nassau County in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 24,568. The Village of Rockville Centre is inside the southwest part of the Town of Hempstead. Near Rockaway, formerly a village for the Reckouackie Indians, in the late 17th century included what today is Rockville Centre, as well as Oceanside, Lynbrook, and East Rockaway. Population increased slowly through the 17th century, but with the erection of DeMott\'s Mill on Smith\'s Pond, Rockville Centre\'s position as a commercial center for the South Shore of Long Island began to emerge. The revolutionary fervor sweeping other parts of the thirteen colonies seemed far removed from the inhabitants of Near Rockaway, until June 1776, when a skirmish at DeMott\'s Mill turned neighbor against neighbor as the forces of independence swept through a fiercely loyalist community.
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