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Freeport is a village in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 43,783 at the 2000 census.

The Incorporated Village of Freeport is in the southwestern part of Nassau County, lying within the Town of Hempstead. Freeport has its own municipal electric utility and police department. Freeport is also a station on the Long Island Rail Road.

The village now known as Freeport was part of an area called "the Great South Woods" during colonial times. In the mid-1600s, the area was renamed Raynor South, and ultimately Raynortown, after a herdsman named Edward Raynor, who had moved to the area from Hempstead in 1659, cleared land and built a cabin.[1] In 1853, residents voted to rename the village Freeport, adopting a variant of a nickname used by ship captains during colonial times because they were not charged customs duties to land their cargo.[1] The village was incorporated in 1892.[1] Oystering became a thriving industry after the Civil War, although it declined at the beginning of the 20th Century because of changing salinity in the bay and because of pollution.