Long Island Counties
Long Island Counties
a classified list of links to online resources
-- Kings (or Brooklyn) County (voted to become a Borough of greater
New York City, in 1899)
See also New York State History web page (Patchogue-Medford
Library) under "New York City - Brooklyn (Kings)
Borough (County)"
- Brooklyn Collection (Brooklyn Public Library) - also contains material on the more easterly parts of L.I.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 (Brooklyn Public Library) -- Its coverage included all of L.I.
- Brooklyn, NY History (Brooklyn On Line)
- Brooklyn Dodgers [1890-1957] (Sports Ecyclopedia.com)
- Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (The Association)
- Brooklyn Historical Society (The Society) - chronology, exhibits, educational materials, collections, publicatios, and more.
- Brooklyn in the Civil War (Brooklyn Public Library)
- Brooklyn On Line (BrooklynOnline.com)
- Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1683 to 1884; With Portraits, Biographies, and Illustrations, v. 1, by Henry Reed Stiles, ed.-in-chief., et al. New York: W.W. Munsell and Co., 1884 (Internet Archive)
- Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1683 to 1884; With Portraits, Biographies, and Illustrations, v. 2, part 1, by Henry Reed Stiles, ed.-in-chief, et al. New York: W.W. Munsell and Co., 1884 (Internet Archive)
- Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1683 to 1884; With Portraits, Biographies, and Illustrations, v. 2, part 2, by Henry Reed Stiles, ed.-in-chief, et al. New York: W.W. Munsell and Co., 1884 (Internet Archive)
- Dedication of Monument and Altar to Liberty, by Kings County Historical Society on Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., on August 27, 1920, 144th Anniversary of the Battle of Long Island: Programmme of Ceremonies. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Society, 1920 (Internet Archive)
- Digital Collections (Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Collection) - also includes a link to a teacher's curriculum guide
- History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, v. 1, by Stephen M. Ostrander; ed. by Alexander Black. Brooklyn, NY: Published by Subscription, 1894 (Internet Archive)
- History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, v. 2, by Stephen M. Ostrander; ed. by Alexander Black. Brooklyn, NY: Published by Subscription, 1894 (Internet Archive)
- Kings County In The Archaeological History of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, vols. 237-238 Se-Oc 1920, Part 2; Patchogue-Medford Library. Local History Collections)
- Kings County G.A.R. Posts, maintained by Sue Greenhagen (Morrisville College) - Union Civil War veterans' organizations
- Kings County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
- Kings County, New York: Cities, Towns, and Neighborhoods (NY Home Town Locator)
- List of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (Wikipedia)
- Register, in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700; with Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies Compiled from Various Sources, by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S.W. Green's Son, Printer, Electrotyper and Binder, 1881 (Internet Archive)
- Synoptical History of the Towns of Kings County from 1525 to Modern Times: Containing the Origin of the Names of the Streets, Avenues and Lanes, compiled from the Manuscripts of Stiles, Ostrander, Furnham, and Other Historians, by E.A. Custer. New York: Sherwood's, Inc., 1911 (Internet Archive)
- Welcome to Nassau County (Ancestry.com Rootsweb. A New York GenWeb Page)
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball / Robert E. Murphy
- Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn / Franis Morrone
- Battle of Brooklyn / John J. Gallagher
- Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924 / Henry Isham Hazelton
- Branch Rickey / Jimmy Breslin
- Brooklyn: A State of Mind / ed. by Michael W. Robbins
- Brooklyn, Historically Speaking / John B. Manbeck
- Brooklyn Almanac: Illustrations, Facts, Figures, People, Buildings, Brooks / ed. by Margaret Latimer
- Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges and More Got Their Name / Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss
- Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, McPhail, Reiser and Rickey Changed Baseball / Rudy Marzano
- Brooklyn Fact and Trivia Book / The Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes / James Agee
- Brooklyn Noir / ed. by Tim McLoughlin
- Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure / Jeffrey I. Richman
- Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn / Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias
- Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella / Neil Lanctot
- Charter of the City of Brooklyn, Passed June 28, 1873
- Christ in Concrete / Pietro Di Donato
- Confederate Dead in Brooklyn: Biographical Sketches of 513 Confederate POWs / John F. Walter
- In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World / Peter Golenbock
- Cypress Hills Cemetery / Stephen C. Duer and Allan B. Smith
- The Duke of Flatbush / Duke Snider will Bill Gilbert
- February House / Sherill Tippins
- Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles / Michael D'Antonio
- Fort Greene / Howard Pitch
- Green Oasis in Brooklyn: The Evergreens Cemetery, 1849-2008 / John Rousmaniere
- Guide to Brooklyn anuscripts in the Long Island Historical Society / [comp. by Robert Sink]
- Guide to Historical Resources in Kings County (Brooklyn, New York Repositories / Cornell University. Olin Library. New York Historical Resources Center
- High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jan Glier Reeder
- Historical and Descriptive Review of the City of Brooklyn and Her Manufacturing and Mercantile Industries / Richard Edwards
- Historical Markers and Monuments in Brooklyn: A List /Edna Huntington
- Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York / Suleiman Osman
- Jackie Robinson: A Biography / Arnold Rampersad
- Keskachauge: Or the First White Settlement on Long Island / Frederick Van Wyck
- Kings County, New York, Administration Procedings, 1817-1856: Abstracts of the Earliest Proceedings in the Kings County Surrogate Court, Brooklyn / [comp.] by B-Ann Moorhouse and Joseph N. Silinonte
- Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn: The Story of How and Why Many Brooklyn Sysnagogues, Now "ex-Schuls," were Converted to Other Uses, Primarily as Christian Churches / Ellen Levitt
- The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn / John B. Manbeck, consulting ed.
- New Brooklyn Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from 31 Restaurants that Put Brooklyn on the Culinary Map / Melissa and Brendan Vaughan
- President Lincoln's Third Largest City: Brooklyn and the Civil War / E.A. (Bud) Livingston
- Our Brooklyn: A Series of Articles on Brooklyn's Rich Historical Heritage / Cleveland Rodgers
- Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties: With an Account of the Battle of Long Island and the British Prisons and Prison-Ships at New York / Henry Onderdonck, Jr.
- Self-Guided Walk through Green-Wood Cemetery: Walk #1 Battle Hill and Back / Jeffrey I. Richman
- Shaping of a City: A Brief History of Brooklyn / David Ment
- Sweet and Low: A Family Story / Rich Cohen
- Two Cities: New York and Brooklyn in the Year the Great Bridge Opened / Margaret Webb Latimer
- Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets and Waterways / Adrienne Onofri
- Wait Till Next Year / Doris Kearns Goodwin
- When Brooklyn was the World, 1920-1957 / Elliot Wilensky
-- Nassau County (Part of Queens County to 1899, when the three
easternmost Towns of Queens voted against
incorporation as part of greater New York City, forming a
separate county)
See also Long Island Town Histories and Records
under L.I. - Towns - Nassau County
L.I. - Villages and Cities - Nassau County, N.Y.
- Brief History (Nassau County Historical Society)
- Camp Black, Garden City, Hempstead Plains 1898 (Long Island Genealogy.com)
- Camp Black (N.Y.) (New York Public Library. NYPL Digital Gallery)
- Gold Coast Mansions, New York (Historic Long island.com)
- History of Nassau County (Nassau County, Long Island, New York. Exploring Nassau)
- History of Nassau County's Seal (Nassau County, Long Island, New York. Exploring Nassau)
- Nassau County In The Archaeological History of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, vols. 237-238 Se-Oc 1920, Part 2 (Patchogue Medford Library. Local History Collections)
- Nassau County G.A.R. Posts, maintained by Sue Greenhagen (Morrisville College) - Union Civil War veterans' organizations
- Nassau County Historical Society (The Society)
- Nassau County History Page (Ancestry.com. Rootsweb)
- Nassau County, New York (Wikipedia)
- Nassau County, New York: Cities, Towns and Neighborhoods (NY Home Town Locator)
- Observations on Mosquito Species in Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., Based on Larval and Adult Collections, During the Ten Year Period, 1947-1956, [by] Louis Niebanck, Nassau County, NY. Department of Public Works. District Superintendent [of] Mosquito Control. In Mosquito News, 17(4) De 1957: pp. 315-318 (Internet Archive)
- Patent (Ancestry.com. Rootsweb. Nassau County History Page)
- Nassau County [search results] (NYS. GIS Clearinghouse)
- Supplementing the Hillegas Scale: A Description of the Derivation and Use of the Nassau County Supplement to the Hillegas Composition Scale, rev. ed., by M.R. Trabue In Columbia University. Teachers College Bulletin, 13(12) May 27, 1922. 38 p.; repr. from Teachers College Record, 18(1) Ja 1917 (Internet Archive)
- Welcome to Nassau County (Ancestry.com. Rootsweb. A New York GenWeb Project Page)
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- Bibliography of Materials About the History of Nassau County, New York, Published from 1940-1968 /[comp. by] Joan Horne
- Creation of Nassau County / Edward J. Smits
- Glimpses of Nassau County's History / Oscar G. Darlington
- History of Nassau County Community Place-Names / Richard A. Winsche
- Nassau, Suburbia, U.S.A.: The First Seventy-Five Years of Nassau County, New York, 1899-1974 / Edward J. Smits
- Nassau County: From Rural Hinterland to Suburban Metropolis / ed. by Joann P. Krieg and Natalie A. Naylor
- Nassau County: Its Governments and Their Expenditure and Revenue Patterns [1960] / Samuel F. Thomas
- Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1940 / Bette S. Weidman and Linda B. Martin
- Nassau County at 100: The Past and resent in Photographs / Linda B. Martin
- Nassau County Historical Society Journal: Cuymulative Index, 1958-1988 / comp. byJeanne M. Burke
- Three Generations of Italian American Women in Nassau County, 1925-1981 / Mary Jane Capozzoli
-- Queens County (In 1899, voted for incorporation as a New York City
Borough; its 3 eastern towns voting to split off, forming
Nassau County)
See also New York State History [web page] (Patchogue-Medford
Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
under "New York City - Queens Borough"
- Queens Library - Archives Photostream (Flickr.com)
- Articles in the Nassau County Historical Society Journal, 1989-2009 (Nassau County Historical Society. Journal)
- Cultural Affairs: Historical Societies (Queens Borough President's Office)
- Cultural Affairs: History (Queens Borough President's Office)
- Graveyard at Flushing Meeting House (Flushing Quaker Meeting House)
- History of the Queens Flag (Queens Borough President's Office)
- History of Queens County, with Illustrations, Portraits & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals. New York: W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882 (Brooklyn Genealogy.com)
- Long Island Division (Queens Library) - resources not only on Queens but also on the history of the rest of Long Island, both east and west
- Neighborhoods (Discover Queens.info)
- Neighborhoods (Queens Borough President's Office)
- Queens County In The Archaeological History of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, vols. 237-238 Se-Oc 1920, Part 2; Patchogue-Medford Library. Local History Collections)
- Long Island (Queens Borough Public Library)
- Queens County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
- Queens County, New York: Cities, Towns and Neighborhoods (NY Hometown Locator)
- Queens County G.A.R. Posts, maintained by Sue Greenhagen (Morrisville College)
- Queens Historical Society (The Society)
- World's Fair Collection - Maps, 90 maps, 1937-1964 (Queens Library. Long Island Division) - list of holdings
--- PML Catalog Sampler:
- Abstracts of Wills for Queens County, New York / comp. and ed. by Ray C. Sawyer
- Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: With Connecting Narratives, Explantatory Notes, and Additions / Henry Onderdonck, Jr.
- Flushing Remonstrance (Origin of Religious Freedom in America) /text by Haynes Trebor
- Guide to Historical Resources in Queens County, New York Repositories / Cornell University. Olin Library. New York Historical Resources Center
- Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs / Vincent F. Seyfried
- Queens, A Pictorial History / Vincent F. Seyfried
-- Suffolk County
See Suffolk County History [web page] (Patchogue-Medford
Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
See also Suffolk Historic Newspapers [web page] (Suffolk
Cooperative Library System. Live-Brary: A
Cooperative Project of the Public Libraries in Suffolk
County, NY)
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