Patchogue-Medford Area History

PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD AREA HISTORY

 

Patchogue-Medford Area or District (Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY)

• Greater Patchogue Historical Society [historical district]
• Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce [business district]
• Historia Local (Biblioteca de Patchogue-Medford)
• Incorporated Village of Patchogue [governmental district]
• Patchogue-Medford Area Historic Images Photostream (Flickr.com; Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Medford Chamber of Commerce [business & historical district]
• Patchogue-Medford Library [library district]
• Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District [school district]
• Patchogue Advance, 1926-1948 [In Suffolk Historic Newspapers]  [courtesy Long Island Advance] - use advanced search, scroll down, highlight the Advance, enter your search

Area Villages:

 

-- The Patchogues 

• Greater Patchogue Historical Society (The Society)
• Historical Sites (Long-Island.com.  Welcome to Patchogue) 
• History of Patchogue Village, East Patchogue, & North Patchogue:  Patchogue - Queen of the South Shore, by Brian T. Egan (Patchogue.com)
• East Patchogue, NY Crime Statistics [compared to Patchogue and the U.S.] (CLR Search.com)
• Patchogue (Ask.com.  Reference.com)
• Patchogue.com (Keleen Guyer)

-- East Patchogue, N.Y. (Unincorporated village & CDP)

• East Patchogue, New York (Wikipedia)
• Fond Memories of Decrepit East Patchogue Theater, by Patrick Whittle (Newsday.com)
• History of the Swan River Schoolhouse (Greater Patchogue Historical Society)
• The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis:  Embracing Details and Incidents in His Captivity, Particulars Concerning His Health and Habits, Together with Many Conversations on Topics of Great Public Interest, by B[re]v[e]t. Lt. Col. John J[oseph]. Craven, M.D., late Surgeon, U.S. Vols., and Physician of the Prisoner During His Confinement in Fortress Monroe, from May 25, 1865 up to December 25, 1865 (1866)  (Internet Archive)  - Note:  Dr. Craven, at the time, commanded the U.S. Medical Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, headquartered at Fortress Monroe. He was an inventor, 49'er, doctor, held several patents, and eventually retired to Patchogue, N.Y., where he was active in civic and social organizations, secured two more patents, was first President of the Patchogue Library Association, 1883-93, and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Patchogue)
• Little-Known World War II Surrender Signed on Ie Shima (Don Moore's War Tales.  Veterans' History Project) - The WWII experiences of Edward M. Myslivecek, of E. Patchogue
• Swan River Schoolhouse [museum] (Greater Patchogue Historical Society) 

-- Medford, N.Y. (Unincorporated village & CDP)

• About this Newspaper:  Mid-Island Mail  (Library of Congress.  Chronicling America & National Endowment for the Humanities)
• The Book of the Home Garden, by Edith Loring Fullerton (1919)  (Internet Archive)
• How to Make a Vegetable Garden:  A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the Home Garden, by Edith Loring Jones Fullerton, illustrated by H[al]. B. Fullerton (1905)  (Internet Archive)
• The Lure of the Land:  The History of a Market Garden and Dairy Plot Developed Within Eight Months Upon Long Island's Idle Territory, Long Designated as "Scrub Oak Waste," and "Pine Barrens.":  Being a True Story of the Work Carried on by the Long Island Railroad Co. at Experimental Station Number One and Two, to Which in the Second Edition was Added the Aftermath, 4th ed., by Edith Loring Fullerton (1912)  (Internet Archive)
• The Lure of the Land:  The History of a Market-Garden and Dairy Plot Developed within Eight Months Upon Long Island's Idle Territory, Long Designated as "Scrub Oak Waste" and "Pine Barrens:"  Being a True Story of the Work Carried on by the Long Island Railroad Co. at Experimental Stations One and Two, to Which in the Second Edition was Added the Aftermath, Being the Story from September Nineteen Five to September Nineteen Nine, 3rd ed., by Edith Loring Fullerton (1911)  (Internet Archive)
• "Peace and Plenty":  The Lure of the Land:  The History of a Market-Garden and Dairy Plot Developed Within Eight Months Upon Long Island's Idle Territory, Long Described as "Scrub Oak Waste," Being a True Story of the Work Carried on by the Long Island Railroad Co. at Experimental Station No. 1, [1st ed.], by Edith Loring Fullerton (1906)  (Internet Archive)
• LIRR Starts Demonstration Farms, by Kevin Vagle (Long Island Ruins & Remnants)
• Medford:  Early Years, 1844-1944 (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Medford:  Los Primeros Anos, 1844-1944 (Biblioteca de Patchogue-Medford.  Historia Local)
• Medford, New York (Wikipedia)
• Medford, NY Community History (Medford Chamber of Commerce)
• Medford Post Office, Suffolk County, New York (U.S. Postal Service.  Postmaster Finder:  Postmasters by City)
• Medford Vision Update:  Downtown & Corridor Revitalization, A Project of the Town of Brookhaven (Medford Chamber of Commerce)
• A Short Medford Historical Bibliography (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

-- North Patchogue, N.Y. (Unincorporated Village & CDP)

• Canaan Lake, New York (Find Lakes)
• North Patchogue, New York (Unincorporated Village & CDP)

-- Patchogue, N.Y. (Incorporated village)   

           [the entries in this section are undergoing reorganization; apologies for any inconvenience

           that this may cause]

 

--- General

• Community Websites (Patchogue.com)
• Patchogue Village's Photos - Historic Images of Patchogue (Facebook)
• Patchogue, by Dave Keller  (Trains are Fun.com.  LIRR)  -- well researched, nicely presented, not limited to solely LIRRiana:  includes photos, maps, sketches, even an Edward Lange painting (in black and white) of a view from the Patchogue River
• Patchogue:  Breve Historia (Biblioteca de Patchogue-Medford)
• Patchogue:  A Brief History (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Patchogue History:  Queen City of the South Shore:  Early Years to Present Day, by Hans Henke, Patchogue Village Historian, et al. (Patchogue.com. PatchogueHistory.htm)
• Patchogue History / Anonymous (Patchogue-Medford Library) - based on material drawn from Sally Bransford's scrapbooks, ca. 1943
• Patchogue, New York (Wikipedia)
• Patchogue:  Really Big Town  (SpoonerCentral.com)
• Patchogue Introduction (Long-Island.com.  Welcome to Patchogue)
• Patchogue Village (Facebook)
• Patchogue Village's Photos - Historic Images of Patchogue (Facebook.  Patchogue Village)
• People from Patchogue, New York (Wikipedia) -- provides links on 9 individuals:  Kevin Connolly (actor), Michael Fagan (bowler), Jeffrey R. MacDonald, Michael P. Murphy, Sylvia Porter, Jeff Schaeffer, Edgar A. Sharp, John Vredenburgh Van Pelt, and Bryant Neal Vinas
• Picturesque Patchogue ([Patchogue] Argus, [special issue], 1898; Courtesy of the Long Island Advance)
• Portrait of a Village as an Arts Haven, by Marcelle S. Fischler (The New York Times.  Real Estate.  In the Region / Long Island, My 6, 2007)
• Video:  Jim Morgo, [Patchogue] Revitalized (Patchogue Patch)
• Village of Patchogue [Centennial] Historical Bus Tour (1993)

--- Associations

• About the CRC  (Incorporated Village of Patchogue.  Patchogue Cemetery Restoration Committee) - See also the link for the Burial Index (Lakeview and Waverly Avenue Cems.)
• About Us (SNAP, Inc.)
• Archive (Veterans of Foreign Wars. Department New York. Post 2913 [The Jayne-Lattin Post]) 
• [Article Archives]  (Patchogue-Medford Council of Teachers)
• Council History (Knights of Columbus.  Patchogue Council # 725)
• A History and Souvenir Program of Patchogue Lodge No. 1323 B.P.O.E. Fair and Carnival, August 12th to 19th, 1916  (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  Patchogue Lodge No. 1323)
• President's Page (Patchogue Civic Association)
• Who We Are / Founder (Dress for Success, Inc.)
• Farragut Council # 54 of the Junior Order United American Mechanics (JOUAM):  An Archival Finding Aid, comp. and ed. by Elissa Daub (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• History of the Patchogue Garden Club, 1996-2006:  Origin of the Patchogue Garden Club, by Josephine Miller, Founder, Historian, Past President (Patchogue Garden Club)
• Masonic Lodge is Suspended After Shooting, by Patrick Healy (N.Y. / Region.  The New York Times, March 15, 2004)
• History (Kiwanis Club of Patchogue) 
• Past Presidents (Patchogue Lions Club)
• Welcome (Patchogue Lions Club)
• Golden Jubilee Pamphlet [1953]  (Patchogue Knights of Columbus)
• Patchogue Lioness Lions Club, New York - United States (The Club) - 1st photgraph in the "Photo Gallery" section is of the organization's charter 
• Pilot Club of Patchogue (The Club)
• PMCT Publications Receive Top Honors:  2010 NYSUT Journalism Awards (Patchogue-Medford Council of Teachers)
• Rotary Club of Patchogue (The Club) -- see link on its 75th Anniversary, under Photo Journals (lower right)
• Saga of the Kiwanis Bell [supposely under a curse:  a chronology] (Kiwanis Club of Patchogue)
• Story of Kiwanis in Patchogue, as Depicted in Silver Anniversary Journal, researched by Walter Ladick and Al Chiuchiolo (1963)
• Suffolk County United Veterans (The United Veterans)

--- Bishop, Staff Sgt. Keith [Patchogue High School graduate, kia in Afghanistan, with U.S.

           special forces; recipient of bronze star, U.S. Army Medal of Commendation for Valor,

           among other recognitions]

• Green Beret Keith Bishop Lauded for Service to Country, by Martin C. Evans (Newsday)
• Long Island Green Beret is Remembered, by Ti-Hau Chang (Fox News) - article and video

--- Blizzards

• Blizzards of Patchogue (Flickr.  PMLlocalhistory's Photostream)

--- Boatyards, Boatbuilding, Shipbuilding, Shipwerecks, and Boat Racing

           See also  Smith, Gilbert Monroe

                          Waterfront and Waterfront Revitalization

• Boatyards (Long Island Traditions)
• Brief History of Ice Scooters (South Bay Scooter Club)
• Grace Bailey (Maine Windjammer Cruises)
• Grace Bailey National Historic Landmark Study, by Nicholas Dean, 1990, Designated December 4, 1990  (U.S.  Dept. of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Maritime Heritage Program.  Maritime Landmarks:  Large Vessels)
• History and Restoration:  Schooner Grace Bailey, Built in Patchogue, New York [1882], researched and written by J.W. Sims [1977]  (Maine Windjammer Cruises.  Our Fleet.  History and Restoration) -- designated a National Landmark and flagship of their fleet
• Schooner Grace Bailey, Built in Patchogue, New York, researched and written by J.W. Sims in 1977 (Maine Windjammer Cruises)
• Schooner Louis V. Place (Greater Patchogue Historical Society)
• Patchogue (ID 1227)  YFB-1227 (NavSources Online:  Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive)

--- Briarcliffe College.  Patchogue Campus

• About Briarcliffe College - Patchogue  (The Campus) - no indication here of its interesting history 

--- Cemeteries

             See also Religious Institutions

• Burial Index (Inc. Village of Patchogue.  Cemetery Restoration Committee of Patchogue)  -- links to 2 Ancestry.com Find a Grave pages for Lakeview Cem. (402 names) and Waverly Cemetery (877 names) interments
• Cedar Grove Cemetery (Ancestry.com. Find a Grave) -- 466 names
• Cedar Grove Cemetery, Patchogue, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York (Partial Listing)  (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
• Cedar Grove Cemetery (The Political Graveyard:  Suffolk County, N.Y.) -- Walter Husted Jaycox and Robert S. Pelletreau are profiled
• Cemetery History (Inc. Village of Patchogue.  Cemetery Restoration Committee of Patchogue) -- essentially Lakeview Cemetery, actually 5 historic cemeteries
• Graves of Those Lost at Sea and Buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery (LongIslandGenealogy.com) -- Legible color photos of each tombstone of victims of two shipwrecks, Louis V. Place (Feb. 8, 1895) and Nahum Champin (Jan. 21, 1897).  The wreck of the Louis V. Place was particulary horrific, with ice-encased corpses swinging in the rigging, by the time help could finally reach the ship, and only 1 survivor, later also buried here.   
• John "Rock" Smith's Descendants Recorded on Unique Monument in Lakeview Cemetery, Patchogue (LongIslandGenealogy.com) -- erected by one of Patchogue's "Four Sisters," Ruth Newey Smith, a somewhat delightfuly-caustic poet (daughter of Micah Smith, whose house near the foot of S. Ocean Ave. was built in 1812) -- the entire known family genealogy to that point is on all 4 sides of this monument, something of a mind-blowing wonder to behold (the staures of Faith, Hope, Liberty, and Charity "modestly" represent the four sisters, known locally for their charitable acts and business acumen)
• Patchogue Hebrew Cemetery [Holtsville, NY]  (Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island) -- Temple Beth El burials and reinterments
• [Waverly Avenue Cemetery] (Ancestry.com.  Find a Grave)
• Theft of Bodies Leads to Arrest of Three Teenagers, by Elissa Grootman  (N.Y. / Region.  The New York Times, Jan. 30, 2003) 

--- Civil War, 1861-1865

         See also  Cemeteries

                        Craven, John Joseph

                        Oakes (Prince) Smith, Elizabeth

                        Smith, Gilbert Monroe

• Richard J. Clark Post, No. 210, G.A.R., Patchogue, NY, ca. 1908 (Courtesy Suffolk Maritime Museum) - The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a National Union veterans association that exercised a great deal of political power and social influence over several decades 
• Zinc Sculpture  (Smithsonian Institution.  Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute) - Note that Fig. 2 is Patchogue's Civil War Monument, in front of the Vilage Hall.
• Jeremiah Jay Robinson, 1836-1907 (Surnames Databases of Long Island Genealogy)
• Willett Hawkins Robinson, 1841-1918 (Surnames Databases of Long Island Genealogy)

--- Clare Rose, Inc.

• Clare Rose, Inc. (BNET.  International Directory of Company Histories, v. 68 [1997], by Ed Dinger)

--- Craven, John Joseph

• Col. John Joseph Craven (Ancestry.com.  Find a Grave)
• John Joseph Craven, 1822-1893  (Open Library)
• John Joseph Craven, Surgeon, 1st NJ Militia (Civil War Surgeon's Memorial.org)
• Letter from Mrs. Jefferson Davis to Col. John J. Craven (FoodHistory.com)

--- Crime and criminals

           See also  Lucero, Marcelo  [murder victim]

                          MacDonald, Jeffrey [murder]

• Crime in Patchogue (Maple Avenue Gazette, Patchogue, NY)

--- D'Ambrosio, Franc

• Franc D'Ambrosio:  Patchogue-Medford Graduate Makes History as the Longest Running Phantom of the Opera [on Broadway, NYC]  (Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers)

--- Directories 

• Patchogue (Ancestry.com  Rootsweb.  1868-69 Curtin's Long Island Directory)
• The Argus Business and Residential Directory of Patchogue, N.Y., with Historical Sketch: 1904.  Patchogue, NY:  L.B. Green, Publisher (Internet Archive)  -- The Argus, was for many years, the chief Patchogue competitor of the Advance] (Internet Archive) - Includes 1904 Patchogue street map p.[5], an alphabetic list of streets and avenues (pp. 7-8), a History of Patchogue, pp. 9-11, the Residential Directory (pp. 12-26), a Patchogue Telephone Directory [2 digits + sometimes followed by one letter, e.g.:  Patchogue 47 m, or Patchogue 53 b, followed by a name and adddress], pp. 28-30, scattered, advertisements throughout, illustrations, photos and portraits of prominent places, businesses, and individuals, Fraternal Societies (p. 40), the Business Directory (pp. 57-61), followed by lists of the members of the local Board of Education, Teachers of Patchogue Schools, and Board of Health (p. 61) , a directory of Churches (p. 62), Church Societies (pp. 62-63, by denomination), Village Officials (p. 63), Patchogue Post Office (officials to letter-carriers, p. 63), Patchogue Fire Department (officers, companies, Exempt Firemen's Association, p. 64), Location of Fire Hydrants (pp. 64-65), Sporting Clubs, Social and Literary Clubs, Patchogue Free Library (p. 65), concluding with an Index (to general-interest material, Illustrations, and Advertisements, pp. [66-68].     

--- Educational Institutions, El-Hi

           See also  Briarcliffe College

                          Religious Institutions

                          St. Joseph's College.  Patchogue Campus

                          Seton Hall High School

• History of Holy Angels Regional School, A Catholic Educational Community (The School)
• What is the History of the Emanuel Lutheran School? (Emanuel Lutheran Church)
• Patchogue High School Class of 1915 (LongIslandGenealogy.com)
• Patchogue-Medford High School (Wikipedia)
• Patchogue-Medford School District (Wikipedia)
• Video:  Class President's Rap Highlights Graduation (Patchogue Patch) 

--- Educational Institutions, Higher

           See   Briarcliffe College

                    St. Joseph's College.  Patchogue Campus

 

--- Family Melody Center

• History (Family Melody Center)

--- Fire Island National Seashore.  Headquarters [120 Laurel Street, Patchogue]

• Fire Island National Seashore (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service)

--- Firefighting history

• History of Our First Chief, Edwin Bailey (Patchogue Fire Department)
• Union Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1  (Patchogue Fire Department)

--- Hart's Tavern

• April, 1790  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory.  The Diaries of George Washington, v. 6, Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds.  -- See entry of April 22nd; a Patchogue lunch stop by the new President, on his whirlwind tour of L.I. (part of a brief escape, from the pressure of constantly setting precedents at the new national capital, at New York)

--- Hotels

• Innocents of Patchogue; They Don't Know Whiskey When They See It.  Some Very Remarkable Testimony Given at the Trial of the Indicted Hotel Keeper (The New Tork Times, De 17, 1886)

 

--- Incorporated Village of Patchogue

• History:  Past Officers of the Village of Patchogue  (The Village)  -- lists village presidents, mayors, clerks, and fire chiefs, in chronological order
• Patchogue Village (Facebook)
• Patchogue Village.org  (The Village)

--- Junior Order United American Mechanics.  Farragut Council # 54

           See  Associations

 

--- Knights of Columbus.  Patchogue Council # 725

           See  Associations

 

--- Long Island Rail Road.  Patchogue Station

• Chapter III:  The Era of Expansion:  Patchogue, Rockaway and Hunters Point, by Vincent F. Seyfried (The Long Island Rail Road, A Comprehensive History, Part One:  South Side R.R. of L.I. [1961] -- by the dean of LIRR historians
• Patchogue, by Dave Keller  (Trains are Fun.com.  LIRR)  -- well researched, nicely presented, not limited to solely LIRRiana:  includes photos, maps, sketches, even an Edward Lange painting (in black and white) of a view from the Patchogue River
• Patchogue (LIRR Station)  (Wikipedia) -- includes some great links

-- Lucero, Marcelo

• A Death in Patchogue (Opinion.  Editorial.  The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2008)
• A 3000 Mile Bridge, by NPR's Latino USA  (Vimeo)  -- videoclip
• Marcelo Lucero (Times Topics.  The New York Times, June 16, 2010)
• A Year After an Immigrant's Death, Signs of Hope, by Peter Applebome (New York Region.  The New York Times, Nov. 11, 2009) 

--- MacDonald, Jeffrey R.

• Jeffrey R. MacDonald  (Wikipedia)

--- Masons, Free and Accepted.  South Side Lodge # 453

            See  Associations

 

--- Medical Services

• About Us (Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center)
• Brief History of the Patchogue Ambulance Company (Patchogue Ambulance Company)

--- Mills & Factories

• East (Swan) Lake Grist Mill, ca. 1908 (Trains are Fun.com)
• Patchogue Lace and Carpet Mills, ca. 1909 (Trains are Fun.com)
• Patchogue Lace Mill Strike Ended (The New York Times, Jl 9, 1893)
• Fate of a Derelict Mill Clouds Patchogue's Future (The New York Times.  Real Estate, Se 15, 1996)

--- Murphy, Lt. Michael P., 1976-2005 [U.S. Navy Seal; posthumous recipient of the

           Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in Afghanistan; Patchogue Post Office was

           renamed in his honor, in 2006]

• Lt. Michael Murphy, Navy Seal "Sailor's Cross Memorial" Photos - Patchogue, NY  (Withheldnewsgroups.vox.com)
• Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN (1976-2005) (Maritime Quest) -- photos, Medal of Honor citation, biography, military career, valor
• Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN (Medal of Honor, USN Recipients) -- photo, summary of action, official citation, biography, photo gallery, FAQ, Press Advisory
• Long island Green Beret is Remembered, reported by Ti-Hua Chang (Fox News) - article and video
• Patchogue Citizens Remember Lt. Michael Murphy, by Lt. Leslie Lykins, Deputy, Navu Office of Information  (U.S. Navy.  Office of Information, East)

--- Museums

• About Us (Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame)
• Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame Inductees, 1990 to 2006 (The Hall of Fame)

--- Newspapers

• About the Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance)
• About This Newspaper:  The Argus (Library of Congress.  Chronicling America & National Endowment for the Humanities)
• About This Newspaper:  The Long Island Advance (Library of Congress.  Chronicling America.  National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Historic Suffolk Newspapers [recently added:  Patchogue Advance, 1926-1948]  (Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Member Libraries, Participating Institutions & Newspapers, now including the Long Island Advance)
• Index to Birth, Marriage and Death Announcements in The Long Island Advance, ed. by Toni Raptis (Patchogue-Medford Library)
• Patchogue Advance [1901-1912] (South Bay Scooter Club.  Published Articles)
• Patchogue Patch (Patchogue Patch)
• Patchogue Patch (Facebook)
• More News [2010] (Patchogue-Medford News)
• News Archive [2009] (Patchogue-Medford News)
• News Archive [2008] (Patchogue-Medford News)
• Titles in City:  Patchogue, New York (U.S. Libraryof Congress.  Chronicling America & National Endowment for the Humanities) 

--- Oakes (Prince) Smith, Elizabeth

          [wife of Seba Smith, notable American author, poet, lecturer, abolitionist, womens

          suffragist, arrived in Patchogue, 1860, moved to Blue Point, 1870, d.1893, buried in

          Patchogue]

• Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith  (Wikipedia)
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893)  (Northeastern Illinois University)
• Riches Without Wings, Or, the Cleveland Family, by Mrs. Seba [Elizabeth Oakes] Smith (1839)  (Google Books; Internet Archive)
• The Sinless Child, and Other Poems, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith, ed. by John Keese (1843)  (Internet Archive)
• Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 2nd ed. (1846) (Internet Archive)
• The May Flower for M DCCC XLVIII, ed. by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1848) (Internet Archive) - interesting as the year of the democratic revolts in Europe and end of the end of the U.S.-Mexican War
• Woman and Her Needs (serialized articles in the New York Tribune; Northeastern Illinois University)
• The Newsboy, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive)
• Bertha and Lily; Or, the Parsonage of Beech Glen, A Romance, by Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1854) (Internet Archive) 

--- Patchogue Garden Club

           See  Associations

 

--- Patchogue-Medford Library

 

           See  Patchogue-Medford Library History

 

--- Patchogue Post Office  [on the National Register of Historic Places for its art deco and

            classical revival architectural elements; architect John V. Van Pelt also designed

            Patchogue's Carnegie Library]

            See also  Murphy, Lt. Patrick P.  [P.O. renamed in his honor in 2006]

• Patchogue Post Office, Suffolk County, New York  (U.S. Postal Service.  Postmaster Finder:  Postmasters by City)
• U.S. Post Office (Patchogue, New York)  (Wikipedia)

--- Patchogue Theatre   [formerly Ward & Glynne's, opened 1923; restored; on the National

           Register of Historic Places]

• History of the Patchogue Theatre (Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts)
• Patchogue Theatre (Wikipedia)

--- Patchogue Electric Lighting Company (PELCO) 

• Edward Henry Terry (b. 27 Mar 1836, d.04 Feb 1908)  (Family Tree Maker Online)

--- Photographs, Postcards, and Illustrations, Historic

• Crawling Westward on Main Street, Patchogue, 1940's (SpoonerCentral.com) -- also includes a 1930's view of downtown Center Moriches
• Looking North on South Ocean Avenue (Spooner Central.com) -- 4 views (1899-1911)
• Patchogue, by Dave Keller  (Trains are Fun.com.  LIRR)  -- well researched, nicely presented, not limited to solely LIRRiana:  includes photos, maps, sketches, even an Edward Lange painting (in black and white) of a view from the Patchogue River
• Patchogue Then and Now (Bygone Long Island)
• [Post Cards] (Greater Patchogue Historical Society) 

--- Police

• The 5th Precinct Bureau [Headquarters, Patchogue, NY] (Suffolk County Police Department)

--- Porter, Sylvia Feldman, 1913-1991

• Sylvia Porter (Wikipedia)

--- Radio Station

• WALK-FM (Wikipedia)

--- Religious history and Institutions

          See also  Cemeteries

                         St. Joseph's College.  Patchogue Campus

                         Seton Hall High School

• About the Congregational Church of Patchogue (The Church) -- founded 1793
• Book of Remembrance (United Methodist Church of Patchogue)
• Congregational Church of Patchogue (Wikipedia) -- building is on the National Register
• Beth-El Through the Years (Temple Beth El of Patchogue)
• Entered into Life from Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y., February 13th and 14th, 1879, Mrs. Lucinda Gillette -- Thursday Noon -- Aged Ninety Years and Nine Months; Mrs. Deborah Arthur -- Thursday Morning -- Aged Seventy-Nine Years and Nine Months; Mrs. Mary Mott -- Friday Noon -- Aged Seventy-Six Years and Seven Months; Also, Mrs. Polly Hedges, October 30, 1878, Aged Eighty-Four Years and Ten Months.  Old Age:  Its Peculiar Dues, Duties and Cheer, by Tho C. Jerome; A Sermon, Preached at the Congregational Church, Patchogue, Sabbath A.M., February 16, 1879.  (Internet Archive)
• History of St. Francis de Sales (Parish Community of St. Francis de Sales.  Parish History)
• Chapter III.  Patchogue, the Ancestral Family Home of the Davidows (100th Anniversary of the Arrival in America of Daniel Davidow)
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church:  Our History, Rev. Paulette Schiff  (The Church)

--- Roberts, Betsey Ann Smith   [one of Patchogue's "Four Sisters"]

• Original Poems, 2nd ed., by Betsey Ann Smith Roberts [Patchogue, NY:]  Patchogue Advance Print, 1894  (Internet Archive)

--- Roe, Austin

• Austin Roe Graveyard, Patchogue (Bygone Long Island)

--- St. Joseph's College.  Patchogue Campus  [former campus of Seton Hall High School]

• History of St. Joseph's College [chronology] (The College)
• St. Joe's Pitches in at Extreme Makeover (Patchogue Patch)

----  Yearbooks  [St. Joseph's College.  Patchogue Campus] 

• Memories, 1974 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections, 1975 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections, 1976 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections, 1977 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections, 1978 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections, 1979 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1983 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1983 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1984 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1984 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1985 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1985 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1986 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1986 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1987 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1987 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1988 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1988 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1989 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1989 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1990 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1990 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1991 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1991 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1992 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1992 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1993 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1993 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1994 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 1995 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1995 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achievements, 1996 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Inernet Archive)
• Horizons, 1996 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achievements, 1997 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achiievements, 1998 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 1998 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Horizons, 1999 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achievements, 1999 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achievements, 2000 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 2001 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 2002 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Achievements, 2003 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive) 
• Achievements, 2004 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive) 
• Achievements, 2005 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive
• Horizons, 2005 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Achievements, 2006 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)
• Horizons, 2006 [yearbook] (St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, NY)  (Internet Archive)

--- Seton Hall High School

• History (Seton Hall High School Alumni, 1937-1974) -- contains a link to the Sisters of Charity of Halifax website (sisters of this order ran the high school)
• Seton Hall High School (Facebook)
• Seton Hall High School Alumni, 1937-1974 (The Alumni) 

--- Sharp, Edgar Allan  [banjo player in minstrel shows, erected WW I entertainment hall in

           Camp Upton for the troops on behalf of Knights of Columbus, and commanded Knights of

           Columbus troop support operations in Great Britain and Ireland during the war, entered

           local, state, then national politics, becoming a U.S. Congressman] 

 

• Sharp, Edgar Allan (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress) 

--- Smith, Gllbert Monroe

           See also  Boatyards, Boatbuilding, Shipbuilding, and Boat Races

                          Waterfront and Waterfront Revitalization

• Gil Smith, Maker of Sleek Sailboats, by Bill Bleyer for Newsday.com (Greater Patchogue Historical Society)
• Gilbert M. Smith, Master Boatbuilder of Long Island, New York:  A Thesis, by Daria Elizabeth Merwin, submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, May 2000 (The Author & Texas A&M University)
• New Gil Smith Catboat Pics, by Jim Ledger (Wooden Boat Forum)          

--- Smith, Seba [husband of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, noted American political humorist, arrived in

            Patchogue, 1860, d. 1868, buried in Patchogue]

• Seba Smith (Wikipedia)
• "Seba Smith" [search results] (Internet Archive)
• The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, by Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1834)  (Internet Archive) - established Smith as dean of the faux-folksy style of American political humor
• Powhatan; A Metrical Romance, in Seven Cantos, by Seba Smith (1841)  (Internet Archive) 
• Dew Drops of the Nineteenth Century; Gathered and Preserved in Their Brightness and Purity, by Seba Smith (1846)  (Internet Archive) 
• New Elements of Geometry, by Seba Smith (1850)  (Internet Archive) - a serious interest, for many years a standard textbook
• My Thirty Years Out of the Senate, by Major Jack Downing [comic alias of Seba Smith] (1859)  (Internet Archive)
• Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (1864)  (Internet Archive) - actually ed. by his son, while Seba Smith was living in Patchogue.  Most of the "letters" had originally been penned decades earlier.

--- Trolley Line  [Suffolk Traction Company]

• Patchogue Village Uncovers Trolley Tracks (Greater Patchogue Historical Society)  -- but not for the first time
• Suffolk Traction Company  (Long Island Oddities.  Bygone Long Island.  Long Island Trolley & Traction Companies)
• Suffolk Traction Company (Wikipedia)

--- Spanish-American War, 1898

• Patchogue, L.I., N.Y. in the Spanish-American War (& Its Immediate Aftermath):  Events and Concerns of the Day, as Reported in Microfilmed Pages of the Patchogue Advance, [transcribed] as Originally Published in 1898:  A Selective Centennial Bibliography (of National, State, and Regional News, in Local Context), repr. by permission of the Long Island Advance  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)

--- Waterfront and Waterfront Revitalization

          See also  Boatyards, Boatbuilding, Shipbuilding, and Boat Racing

                         Smith, Gilbert Monroe

• Draft Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan / Harbor Management Plan and Generic Environmental Impact Statement, Prepared for the Village of Patchogue by AKRF, Inc. and Arch Spire Architecture, PC, September 2008  (Incorporated Village of Patchogue)
• Great South Bay (Wikipedia)
• Patchogue  (N.Y.S.  Department of State.  Division of Coastal Resources.  Coastal Resources Online)
• Patchogue Bay (Wikipedia)
• Patchogue River (Wikipedia)
• Shorefront Park (Wikipedia)
• South Shore Estuary (Wikipedia)  

--- World War, 1914-1918

• Hebe  (U.S.  Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Little Brothers (U.S.  Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Little Sisters (U.S.  Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Nemesis (U.S. Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Patchogue [I] (U.S.  Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Patchogue (American Steam Ferryboat, 1912).  Served as USS Patchogue (ID # 1227, later YFB-1227) in 1917-1922 (U.S.  Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Online Library of Selected Images - Civilian Ships) 

--- World War, 1939-1945

• Patchogue [II]  (U.S. Navy Department.  Naval Historical Center.  Naval History & Heritage Command.  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
• Patchogue World War II Hero Awarded with French Legion of Honor (Congressman Tim Bishop) - Salvatore Sepulveda, who particupated in the Normandy Invasion in June 1944, and served as a scout, and had been awarded the Bronze Star by the U.S. government, was one of the first WW II veterans to be awarded France's highest honor.  Mr. Sepulveda's American service medals are also enumerated.