Suffolk County History

 

 

• Early History of Suffolk County, L.I., A Paper Read Before the Long Island Historical Society, November 6, 1865, by Hon. Henry Nicholl.  (Printed for the Society, 1866)  (Cornell University.  Library.  New York State Historical Literature) 
• Bi-centennial:  History of Suffolk County, Comprising the Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the Bi-Centennial of Suffolk County, N.Y., in Riverhead, November 15, 1883, ed. by Stephen A. Titus.  (Babylon, N.Y.:  Budget Steam Print, 1885)  (Internet Archive)
• History of Suffolk County New York, with Illustrations, Portraits and Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals, by Richard M. Bayles, et al. (1882)  (Internet Archive)
• Reflections on Suffolk County Pre-History-1914, comp. by Sherill Halsey Stevens (LI Genealogy.com)
• Suffolk County History (Suffolk County, NY. Office of the County Executive)
• Suffolk County, New York (Political Graveyard)
• Suffolk County, New York (Wikipedia; Answers.com)
• Climate of Fear:  Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y. (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• The Big Duck, Flanders, NY, photos by Luke C. Cole (Luke's Roadside Attractions:  Mimetic Architecture) 

• Mid-Island Mail (Longwood's Journey)

• Camp Upton (Longwood's Journey)

• 11th Cavalry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 23rd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 102nd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company C
• 109th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company I
• 127th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E,G,H,I,K
• 131st Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company K
• 139th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies A,H,I
• 146th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• 155th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E
• 159th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company F
• 176th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• The Communities of New York and the Civil War - Suffolk County (New York State Military Museum & Veterans Research Center)
• A Look at the Suffolk County Experience of the Civil War in Riverhead, by Pat Rogers (East Hampton Press & Southampton Press; 27 East Arts)
• Suffolk County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisvile College, maintained by Sue Greenhagen - Grand Army of the Republic (Union veterans') posts were scattered across the North and initially were a very powerful association and lobby.

• Historic Documents Library (Suffolk County.  Clerk's Office)

• Captain Thomas Terry's Company, New York Provincial Regiment  (Skyworld Design)
• French and Indian War (Longwood's Journey)

• Early Long Island Wills of Suffolk County, 1691-1703:  An Unabridged Copy of the Manuscript of the Volume Known as "The Lester Will Book"; Being the Record of the Prerogative Court of the County of Suffolk, New York, with Genealogical and Historical Notes, by William S. Pelletreau (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• Suffolk County (Long Island) New York  (Kindred Trails Worldwide Genealogy Resources) 
• Suffolk County, New York (Political Graveyard) 
• Suffolk County Death Records (U.S. Social Security Administration, posted by RootsWeb.com) -- clickable alphabetically, by village
• Suffolk County Almshouse:  A Finding Aid to the Records, 1871-1953 (Suffolk County.  Office of the Clerk.  Historic Documents Library)
• Suffolk County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
• Welcome to Suffolk County:  A NYGenWeb Project Page (Ancestry.com.  NY GenWeb)

• Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site (National Historic Landmarks)
• New York - Suffolk (National Register of Historic Places)
• New York - Suffolk - Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places)

• Suffolk Historical Societies (Suffolk County Clerk's Office.  Documents Library) 

• The KKK Flares Up on Long Island, by David Behrens (Newsday, July 11, 2009; Brookhaven / Southaven Hamlets) 

• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet  (Lloyd Harbor Historical Society)
• Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and Young Man, by Walt Whitman (Specimen Days.  Prose Works, 1892; Bartleby.com)

• Suffolk Historic Newspapers, 1839-2007  (Suffolk Cooperative Library System, ites Contributing Member Libraries and Allied Institutions) 
• Suffolk County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm and Paper at All NYS Locations (New York State Library.  New York State Newspapers) 

• Origin of the Sheriff (Suffolk County. Sheriff's Office)
• Suffolk County Police Historical Society (The Society) 

• Suffolk County Postmasters of 1898 (Ancestry.com, hosted by RootsWeb)

• Tesla Wardenclyffe Project (Tesla Wardenclyffe Project, Inc.)
• Marconi Wireless Building, by Kevin Vagle (Long Island Ruins and Remnants)
• The Book of Radio - Radio Central Chapter (1922)  (EarlyRadioHistory.us)

• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary War Patriots:  Suffolk County, NY  (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Associated Loyalists:  Attack on Fort Franklin (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Patriot Refugee Property Owners (Ancestry.com.  Rootsweb)
• Burning of the Hay at Coram, by Thomas R. Bayles (Longwood's Journey)
• Index to Suffolk County, New York Militia History (Loyalist Institute)
• Meigs Raid (Wikipedia)
• The H.M.S. Culloden Shipwreck (Aqua Explorers, Inc., copyright Captain Dan Berg)
• The Setauket Spies, by Beverly C. Tyler (Three Village Historical Society)
• Whaleboat Warfare (Hartford Courant)

• Lexington Shipwreck in Long Island [Sound], New York, Jan. 13, 1840 (Brooklyn Genealogy Information.com)
• Long Island Shipwrecks (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Long Island Sound Shipwreck Chart, by Captain Dan Berg (AquaExplorers.com)
• Long Island Shipwreck Chart [South Shore], by Capt. Dan Berg (AquaExplorers.com)
• Shipwreck Corner (Eco-Photo Explorers)

• The Provisioning Plantation:  Slavery as the Economic Engine, by Patricia Schillingburg (ShelterIsland.org)

• Birth of the Electric Boat, by Edward C. Whitman (Undersea Warfare, Summer 2003.  John Holland:  Father of the Modern Submarine)

• A Fleeting Moment in the History of Modern Times, by Verne Dyson (Brentwood Public Library)

• Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
• Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum (The Museum)

• The Witchcraft Cases of Hall and Harrison, George Lincoln Burr, ed. (Hanover Historical Texts Project; drawn from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706.  New York:  C. Scribner’s Sons, 1914:  41-52)

World War, 1914-1918 

• Camp Upton (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• The Telefunken / Sayville Wireless (Long Island Wireless Historical Society)
• Teaching with Documents:  The Zimmermann Telegram (U.S. National Archives)
• USS San Diego (Armored Cruiser 6) Shipwreck, by Capt. Daniel Berg (Aqua Explorers, Inc.)

World War, 1939-1945 

• The Amagansett Incident (U.S. Naval Historical Center)
• Camp Hero State Park (Wikipedia)