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Satellite photo of a L.I. brush fire, Aug. 1995courtesy: U.S. Natl. Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
Long Island History
This website is a sample of the surprising variety & range of information on the web about the colorful history of Long Island, N.Y. A great deal more is found offline, as well.
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Table of Contents
Amagansett, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
-- General
-- Nazi Saboteurs, U-Boat Landing of, 1942 [WW II]
Amityville, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Archives & Special Collections
Babylon (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Bellport, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
"Big Duck" [architectural icon]
Brookhaven, N.Y. -- History [Village, Suffolk County, NY]
Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Central Islip, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
--- 119th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
--- 127th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
-- USS Monitor [constructed & launched in Greenpoint, NY]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- History
Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775
Copiague, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Coram, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Cutchogue, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
East Hampton (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
East Islip, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Farmingdale, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Farmingville, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Fire Island, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Floyd, William [of Mastic, L.I.; Signer, Declaration of Independence]
Floyd, Catherine ("Kitty") [daughter of William Floyd, courted by James Madison]
Flushing, NY (& Flushing Meadows, NY) -- History [formerly Vlissingen]
Gardiners Island, NY -- History / Gardiner Family
Glen Cove (N.Y. : City) -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Grand Army of the Republic (Union Civil War Veterans' Association)
Hempstead (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Hempstead Plains -- History [Long Island’s vanishing prairie lands]
Huntington (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Islip, N.Y. -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Islip (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Jamaica, NY -- History [Queens Borough, NYC, NY]
Laurel Hollow, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Lindenhurst, NY -- History [formerly Breslau, Suffolk County, NY]
-- Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
-- Cooper, James Fenimore (1759-1851)
-- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1853-1940)
-- Hammon, Jupiter (1711-ca. 1806)
-- Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
Lloyd Harbor, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Long Island City, NY -- History
Long Island Railroad -- History
Maspeth, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Mastics, Moriches, Shirley Area [see also Floyd, William & Floyd Catherine ("Kitty")
Massapequa Park, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
-- Kings County / Borough (Brooklyn), N.Y.C., N.Y.
-- Queens County / Borough, N.Y.C., N.Y.
Oyster Bay (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Oyster Bay Cove, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Patchogue, N.Y. -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Prohibition (Rum Running & Rum Row)
Queens County [or Borough], N.Y.C.
-- Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937
-- Fort [William] Franklin, Raid on, 1781
-- Long Island, Battle of, 1776
-- Meigs' Raid [on Sag(g) Harbor], 1777
-- New London & Groton Raid, 1781
-- Queens Rangers (1st American Regt. [Loyalist])
Riverhead, N.Y. [Village] -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Riverhead (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Rocky Point, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Roosevelt, Theodore, President of the United States, 1858-1919
Roslyn, N.Y. -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Sag Harbor, N.Y. -- History ["The Un-Hampton"] [Suffolk County, NY]
Sayville, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Sea Cliff, NY -- History [Nassau County, NY]
Setauket, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Shelter Island (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Smithtown (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Southampton (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Southold (N.Y. : Town) -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
Suffolk County, N.Y. -- History
Note: Suffolk County includes 10 Towns (Babylon, Brookhaven, East Hampton, Huntington, Islip, Shelter Island, Smithtown, Riverhead, Southampton, and Southold), as well as a host of incorporated and unincorporated villages.
Suffolk County Alms House -- History [1871-1953]
Towns [Generally]
See also Babylon (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) -- History; East Hampton, Huntington (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Islip (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Riverhead (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Smithtown (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Shelter Island (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Southampton (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Southold (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Hempstead (N.Y. : Town) -- History; North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town) -- History; Oyster Bay (N.Y. : Town) -- History [the 1st 10 are in Suffolk Co., last 3, in Nassau Co.]
Toxic Waste Sites
Turnerism (Early Gymnastics Clubs)
Women's History
Yaphank, NY -- History [Suffolk County, NY]
-- Camp Siegfried
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Long Island: Our Story (Newsday, Inc.)
The searchable site chiefly contains chronological chapters a number of thematic sections. (African-American, Aviation, Business, Colonial, Jewish, Levittown, Revolutionary War, Scientific, and Sports history are just a few of its clickable topics.) You'll also find timelines, genealogically-oriented selections, famous personalities, interesting documents & places to visit, Long Island Firsts, period images, a directory of historical organizations and agencies. and much more, often illustrated and studded with dramatic & unexpected examples Our Towns provides illustrated capsule histories of Long Island's numerous villages (many having populations equivalent to, & larger than, mid-sized cities, elsewhere in New York State, or around the nation). This was the product of an Island-wide culling of original local history resources from historical societies, museums, academia, public, special, & school, library archives & special collections, government agency public records, private individuals and institutions. Prepared on deadline, edited rather heavily, reviews and historians’ reactions have been mixed, ranging from stormy polemics to high praise. But, Newsday, in its articles, books, and website, has performed a public service, in popularizing the study and research of the history of Long Island, and by making more of it more readily accessible.
Digitized Collections (State University of New York at Stony Brook. Special Collections. Collections & Finding Aids)
Includes, after the mission statement, among other things, links to the University's: (a) Long Island Digital Books Collection, (b) Long Island Historic Postcards Collection, (c) New York State Maps, (d) Poetry Center [video] Collection, which includes many Long Island poets or poets, often of national or international stature, appearing at the University over the years, (e) to selected issues of the student newspaper, The Statesman, (f) and to selected faculty publications, generally technical in nature. The collection is continually expanding. There is also a link to Long Island Books Available Online (from outside sources).
Long Island History (Bethpage High School. Advanced Placement in American History Class, 1994)
An educationally-oriented site with a classified list of chronological and thematic links. Main sections include: Websites About Long Island, Natural History, Native Americans, Colonial Times, American Revolution, Bethpage History, Railroad, Gold Coast, Famous Places, Religion, Fishing and Whaling, Science and Technology, Suburbia, Robert Moses, Aviation and Space, Long Island Map, Resources, Credits, and About the Authors. Many of the subtopics also have clickable thematic links. A nice student site.
Long Island Books Available Online (Stony Brook University. Special Collections. Online Resources. Research Websites) http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/eresources/www/li_online.html
Long Island History on the World Wide Web, by Dr. David Yehling Allen, ret. (formerly of State University of New York at Stony Brook)
A classified, critically annotated list of recommended sites (with links), with insightful remarks, that originally appeared as an article in the Long Island Historical Journal (Spring 2001). While slightly dated, it is still a fine starting point for a sense of the range of material available on the subject at sites either exclusively devoted to, or including Long Island history.
Useful Links (Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, Port Washington, NY)
Classified sections: The Cow Neck Peninsula Today, State & Local Government, Local Libraries, Local History, Local Museums/Historical Societies/Heritage, Landmarks Preservation/Historic Preservation, Historical Genealogy, Long Island Gold Coast Mansions, Long Island Lighthouses, Long Island Railroad (LIRR), The American Revolutionary War on Long Island (1776 [sic]-1783), Long Island Military History, Long Island Aviation History, Colonial Education, Colonial Games & Toys, and Colonial Cooking.
African-American Archeology: The Betsey-Prince Site (New York State Museum) http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research/anthropology/crsp/arccrspprince.html
Remains of a free black homestead, from approx. the 1760s or 1770s to the 1830's. Maps (b&w), and color photos of artifacts. Discovered along Route 25A, in Brookhaven Town, during a highway-widening project.
Black History Month (February 2007): Selected Long Island & New York State Aspects (Patchogue-Medford Library)http://www.pmlib.org/bhm2007.htm
Long Island in African American History, comp. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library) http://www.pmlib.org/long_island_in_african_american.htm
Slave Revolt in Long Island, February 28 [1708], by Jesse Carney Smith (African-American Registry) http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1124/Slave_revolt_in_Long_Island_NY
Update: Long Island Native & Black History, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster-Walker
Created in mid-2006, this highly recommended, thoroughly researched site, already contains a wealth of information on both L.I. Native American and African-American history and genealogy. It is loaded with primary documents, citing sources, as well as providing useful and often hard-to-find material, drawn from secondary sources. Its main sections are: 2006 Events. -- Birth, Marriage and Death Records. -- Books. -- LI Cemeteries. -- LI Libraries. -- U.S. Colored Troops (in Civil War military units); a Archives, and a Blog, to which you may subscribe, at no charge. It also provides the editor's credentials, which are elaborated further offline in her new autobiography, The Colored Girl from Long Island. Quite a number of issues of Update have already appeared online and are downloadable at http://longislandgenealogy.com/LINandBNewsletter/Vol1_No1-8.pdf Each of the issues provides useful links to other sites.
#Amagansett, NY -- History
-- General
History: Amagansett (East Hampton.com) http://www.east-hampton.com/history/amagansett.html
Our History (The First Presbyterian Church of Amagansett) http://www.amagansettpresbyterian.com/OurHistory.htm#Amagansett%20Presbyterian%20Church
-- Nazi Saboteurs, U-Boat Landing of, 1942 [WW II]
Amagansett, A Fishing Community, Site of a Nazi Landing (Hamptons Directory.com) http://www.hamptonsdirectory.com/history/towns/amagansett.htm
The Amagansett Incident (U.S. Navy. Naval Historical Center. German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II: Eastern Sea Frontier War Diary Account of German Agents Landing) http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq114-3.htm#anchor1003581
The Continental Defense Commands After Pearl Harbor (U.S. Defense Department. Guarding the United States & Its Outposts) http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-WH-Guard/USA-WH-Guard-4.html
Places the Amagansett, NY and Ponte Vedra, FL landings of German saboteurs in larger context.
[Amityville Chronology] (Amityville Historical Society) http://www.amityvillehistoricalsociety.org/Hist.Chronological.htm
The Amityville Horror (Snopes.com) http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp
Just because the subtitle of the original fiction novel is "A True Story" doesn't make it so.
Village Info & History (The Village of Amityville) http://www.amityville.com/
Archives (Hempstead Town. Clerk's Office) http://toh.li/content/tc/archives.html
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Oral History Collection (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. CSHL Digital Library) http://library.cshl.edu/OH/mainMovie.html
Individual interviews of 51 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, including 3 Nobel laureates, arranged alphabetically, by name.
Document Record Group (Suffolk County. Clerk's Office) http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/webtemp3.cfm?dept=33&id=1115
Briefly describes the 14 general record groups, into which the Suffolk County Clerk's Office holdings fall. These include Naturalizations (1853-1900), Suffolk Court Actions (1758-ca. 1900), Vessel Liens (1875-1968), Records or Certificates of Conviction [being processed], Coroner's Inquests, Oaths of Office (early 1700s- ), Deeds (mid-1600s - ), Mortgages (1755- ), [Suffolk County] Almshouse (1870-1937?), [Suffolk County] Orphanage, [Suffolk] County Jail, Index of Clerk's Minutes (1724- ), and Lis Pendens (legal notice of pending court actions).
Hofstra University Archives (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY) http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/sc_archives_main.cfm
Includes links to a Microsoft PowerPoint introduction to the collections, to online exhibits, and to descriptions of special collections.
Pennypacker Long Island Collection (East Hampton Library) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/
Clickable sections: Visiting the Collection; Special Indexes; Recommended Links; Past Lectures; History of the Collection; and The Book Store (commercial), and excerpts from the journal of the ship Josephine (1846-1847). The research collection, originated with donation of the private library collection of historian, Morton Pennypacker, is now one of Long Island’s great local history collections, including many fascinating original items, set in a modern, well-organized, climate-controlled facility. Do look at the full texts of an exceptionally fine series of lectures by authors, on aspects of L.I. history.
Richard H. Handley Collection of Long Island Americana (The Smithtown Library) http://www.smithlib.org/page_long_island_room.html
This is another of Long Island’s finest local history research collections, 17th century-present. When, in the days of the “Kate Greenaway Plan” (1960’s), New York State and Suffolk County’s public libraries divided subject area responsibilities, it was thought, to reduce duplication of specialized materials, Smithtown and East Hampton Libraries selected local history, of western and eastern Suffolk, respectively. Though the plan was abandoned elsewhere, both libraries maintained their commitment to their collections, and have become meccas for several generations of L.I. history scholars, researchers, and those curious about the history of their surroundings. The site includes Smithtown’s L.I. history lecture series announcements brochure at http://www.smithlib.org/pdf/LI_Room_Brochure.pdf
The Robert R. Coles Long Island History Room (Glen Cove Public Library) http://www.nassaulibrary.org/glencove/history/index.html
Sag Harbor History Room (John Jermain Memorial Library. The Room) http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/libraries/jjer/localhistoryroom.htm
Though little-known outside the East End of Long Island, this room has a fine collection of whaling ships' captains’ logs, bearing on the larger world, and an interesting collection of 17th-19th century (as well as later) material. Sag Harbor was once a major whaling port, and busy U.S. port of entry. (The village also sports a whaling museum, a U.S. Customs House museum, whaler's church, and many houses and a church built by whaling and coastal trade proceeds. It also a pleasant place to visit.)
Long Island Ephemera Collection (State University of New York at Stony Brook. Special Collections & University Archives. Collections & Finding Aids) http://www.sunysb.edu/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/liephemera.html
General list of contents of 21 boxes of material.
Special Collections at Hofstra University (The University) http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/WestCampus/SpecialCollections/index_SpecialCollections.cfm
Contains links to Hofstra's: (a) University Archives (b) Long Island Studies Institute (& its Publications), (c) Rare Books & Manuscripts, & (d) Special Collections Online Exhibits. Here, you'll also contact information, hours, and rules governing collection use.
The Map Collection, comp. & ed. by Dr. David Y. Allen (State University of New York at Stony Brook) http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/map/
A major collection, esp. strong in illuminating L.I. history & cartography. Strong in many other areas, as well.
Thomas R. Bayles Local History Room (Longwood Public Library) http://longwood.suffolk.lib.ny.us/bayleslist.html
Contains manuscripts and personal records of a locally well-known L.I. historian. Longwood Public Library owns an impressive Camp Upton collection (which figured in 2 world wars, and now is Brookhaven National Laboratory), as well as a collection of works on L.I. history.
City Artists in LI Country, by George DeWan (Newsday. Long Island: Our Story)
Long Island Museum of History, Art, and Carriages (The Museum; formerly the Museums at Stony Brook) http://www.longislandmuseum.org/
Chronology (Newsday, Inc. Long Island: Our Story) http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-starring_li_chronology,0,4295045.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation
Pollack-Krasner House & Studio Center (SUNY at Stony Brook & Stony Brook Foundation) http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/pkhouse.nsf
Contains a brief illustrated overview, and amplifying links: Timeline (a series of clickable photos or pictures, tied to an event, from October 1873-April 2001), Aircraft (Brunner Winkle Bird, P-47 Thunderbolt: Aviation Darwinism, The Titanium Bathtub or A-10 Survivability, Shaking the Jug [P-47], Grumman's Ascendancy, Grumman A-6, Grumman F-14, Hellcat: A Fourth of July Remembrance, Variable Pitch: Grumman F3F-2, Westbound), Airfields (Mitchel Field, Suffolk County Air Force Base), Events (Flight of the NC-4, R-34 Dirigible, Long Island on the Moon), and People (Charles Lindbergh, Harriet Quimby, Elinor Smith, Alexander DeSeversky, Leroy Grumman). You will also find links to the Cradle of Aviation's Permanent Exhibits (covering aviation periods, planes, including some not mentioned above, and themes), Imax (show times), and more (see the entry below)
Cradle of Aviation Museum (The Museum) http://www.cradleofaviation.org/index.html
The museum received a major upgrade, making it a now world class attraction. Its website now has General Information, History, Exhibits, Links, timelines, personalities, aircraft, Imax shows & times, more. Its archives documents the aviation & aerospace history of Long Island, which served as a natural platform for some of the key events in the development of flight, and exploration. The extended staff and consultants includes a number of individuals who made aviation or aerospace history.
Grumman Memorial Park History Center (The Center) http://www.grummanpark.org/history.htm#George%20Skurla
If you want to know something about LeRoy Grumman, his corporation, the planes he made and their place in aviation and military history, this is an interesting place to turn.
Lunar Module Page http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2883/lm_page/lm_home.html
The LEM, that landed on the moon, and saw "One small step for man, and one giant step for mankind", was built on Long Island.
A short narrative, in several sections: (a) How Babylon Got Its Name, (b) Amityville, (c) Barrier Beaches, (d) Farmingdale, (e) North Babylon, (f) West Babylon, (g) Copiague, (h) Village of Babylon. Deer Park, East Farmingdale, Lindenhurst, and Wyandanch are being researched.
Town Clerk (Town of Babylon) http://www.townofbabylon.com/departments/details.cfm?did=11
Maintains the Babylon Town archives.
Bellport History (Old Purchase Properties) http://www.oldpurchase.com/bellport%20history.htm
Long Island Motor Parkway Bibliography, S. Berliner, III. (The Author) http://www.oldpurchase.com/bellport%20history.htm
This is a mixed bag. Commercially-oriented, one links oddly to a calendar, suggesting that sales may figure above informational value. There have been other top 10 lists over the years, notably those occasionally solicited by the NYS Library.
An attractive site, offering a choice of either a brief (Newsday link), or somewhat longer (by Osborn Shaw) history of the village, digitized historical views of the community, historic sites, selected census and genealogical records (e.g., the Post family), the text of the 1995 Brookhaven Hamlet Study, the L.I. Railroad history of the village, images of the salt hay industry, maps, community links, and more. Among the community links are the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society (which runs a museum complex and has a significant archival collection), South Bay Scooter Club (which lays claim to being the oldest ice-scootering club in the U.S.).
Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven (Brookhaven National Laboratory) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/
Between 1957 and 2003, BNL produced 10 nobel laureates. Clickable links, by year or by general topic connect you to capsule descriptions of their contributions to science, to "Other Prizes" received by the Laboratory, and to a bit of BNL History.
Camp Upton Timeline (Longwood's Journey) http://www.homestead.com/prosites-johnrcotter/CampUptonTimeline.html
Brooklyn Historical Society (The Society) http://www.brooklynhistory.org/default/index.html
Main sections (column on left): About BHS, Visitor Information, Exhibitions, Education, Library and Collections, Publications, Support BHS; (center of homepage): A Brief History of Brooklyn: An Interactive Timeline, Exhibitions, News (readings, tours), Othmer Library (highlighted collection), Group Tours; (column on right): Calendar (select a month), Online Store, Library Catalog, Newsletter Sign Up. There is also a site map at the bottom of the page. Well worth browsing, or reading in detail.
Brooklyn History (Brooklyn Online), © 1996-2002 Wynn Data Limited http://www.brooklynonline.com/bol/history/
Includes links on the general history, chronology, archeology, historic sites & structures houses, and neighborhoods of the borough, as well as on the Battle of Brooklyn (or L.I.), the USS Monitor, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Well worth visiting.
Brooklyn Bridge Website, by Gary Feuerstein (Endex Engineering. Buildings & Engineering) http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge.html
A Walk Around Brooklyn, with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis, in Association with Brooklyn Historical Society (Thirteen, WNET, New York) http://www.thirteen.org/brooklyn/
Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Collection (The Library) http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/brooklyncollection/
While focused on Brooklyn (Kings County / Borough), this collection contains a wealth of information and material on the history of the rest of Long Island. Following a short introduction, Featuring highlights various collections, including: Our Brooklyn (on Brooklyn neighborhoods), Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 (searchable major newspaper), Illustrated Covers from the Brooklyn Sheet Music Collection (browsable by Title, Composer/Lyricist/Arranger, Creator, or Year), Fulton Street Trade Card Collection (browsable by Address, Business, or Creator), Historic Brooklyn Photographs (which features the selected photos of specific Brooklyn photographers, as well as a Photo Galleries section (featuring exterior and interior photos of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle building, and 2 series on African-American life and famous African Ameriocans of Brooklyn), and Brooklyn in the Civil War (divided into 4 sections, on Soldiers, Slaver, Women, and Daily Life). Embedded are enlargeable, printable primary documents, maps and other illustrations, lesson plans, and more. The basic site also includes information about "The Morgue" [Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1955], Use of the Collection, and Copyright.
Long Island National Cemetery (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_National_Cemetery
Click on a unit type (artillery, cavalry, infantry, other, brigades, prisons & prisoners, colored troops, or uncompleted and unaccepted organizations), or on one of the resources: e.g.: Charles E. Dornbusch's The Communities of New York and the Civil War: The Recruiting Areas of the New York Civil War Regiments @ http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/dornbusch/longIsland.htm which has separate links, by county (Kings, Queens -- then including Nassau -- and Suffolk, as well as a separate "Long Island" entry). Villages are listed alphabetically followed by the military unit number and usually companies recruited in the village. Click on the unit and you usually get a brief regimental (or artillery battery) history. Nicknames and Synonyms for New York Units @ http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/nicknames.htm is useful, as many units like to refer to themselves or were referred to by an earlier or preferred name, like the Duryea Zouaves or 84th Brooklyn (or Red Legged Devils). These are arranged alphabetically, by unofficial and providing a link to the unit's official numeric designation (and unit history). There are other useful links at this site on U.S. Colored Troops (African-American regiments), the NYS militia and militia law, and a New York State Civil War Newspapers Clippings File @ http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/CWN.htm .
[Note: Long Islanders joined units recruited in both eastern and western Long Island, but also some "upstate", albeit in small numbers, and occasionally out of state. They served in the infantry, cavalry, and artillery, as well as in the navy, or as civilian contractors, physicians, nurses (male and female), fund raisers, sanitary workers, factory workers (manufacturing war materiel), camp followers, a few deserters, and in other capacities, some lent their ships to the Navy. Many veterans from other areas, resettled on L.I., after the war, enriching the mix of military units represented in the politically powerful Grand Army of the Republic (Union veterans') chapters that sprang up across the North in post-war years, not only in Brooklyn and Queens, but in Northport, Patchogue, and elsewhere. Long Islanders ranged from high ranking officers to the rank and file. -- MR]
Long Island & New York -- Civil War Information (LI Genealogy.com) http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/civilwar.html#obtained
Initial material is derived from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, v. 1. 3rd ed., comp. & ed. by Frederick Phisterer (1912): pp. 72-77. NYS Civil War Links follow, then 2 series of genealogical links, links to selected archives and libraries, as well as a table of participants in the Underground Railroad.
Links to a variety of related sources
Legacy of the USS Monitor http://home.att.net/~iron.clad/
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) http://monitor.nos.noaa.gov/
[Ed. note: The relocated and partially explored wreck of the Monitor had undergone a recent legal transformation, before its more recently having been raised. A Monitor Museum is taking shape. This ship, with its radical design (flush deck, with ironclad plating, revolving turret containing 2 powerful Dahlgren guns, detachable smokestacks, and screw propeller) was built in Greenpoint, L.I. (not at the Brooklyn Navy Yard). It revolutionized naval history in its famous 1862 battle with the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia (the stripped down, iron plated, former USS Merrimack). The Monitor sank in a violent storm, in the Atlantic, off Cape Hatteras, N.C., where it came to rest, for well over a century.]
NOAA, Navy Raise Turret of USS Monitor Civil War Ironclad From Graveyard of the Atlantic, 8/5/02 (U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmpospheric Administration) http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2002/aug02/noaa02099.html
The engine had earlier been raised, as well as small artifacts, but in 2002, the turret, and its 2 Dahlgren guns were recovered at this juncture.
U.S.S. Monitor (1862-1862 [sic]) -- Selected Views (U.S. Navy Department. Naval Historical Center. Online Library of Selected Images -- U.S. Navy Ships) http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/monitor.htm
Of 1862 Monitor and Merrimack fame, was built at the Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, L.I. A general narrative, plus 9 links to enlargeable captioned images (for sale), are followed by articles, under clickable links from the main narrative, to: John Erikkson (designer of the Monitor), the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly U.S.S. Merrimack), the Battle of Hampton Roads, Day 1 (the Confederate victory), which has its own links to the sunken or grounded ships (U.S.S. Cumberland and U.S.S. Congress), to the Confederate commanders of the Virginia, and to an article on the 2nd day of the Battle of Hampton Roads (the first duel of ironclads, a draw, that rescued the Federal wooden fleet), to views of that day's battle, and to officers of the Federal ships.
USS Monitor Center (Mariner's Museum, Norfolk, VA) http://www.monitorcenter.org/
#Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- History
Historical Highlights and Recent Achievements (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) http://www.cshl.edu/History/history.html
History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson School of Biological Sciences) http://www.cshl.edu/gradschool/history.html
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dolan DNA Learning Center) http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
#Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
-- General
The Evolution of Long Island: A Story of Land and Sea, by Ralph Henry Gabriel, drawn from Yale University Press, 1921. (rootsweb.com, Colorful Families. Glover)
-- Dutch Colonization
The Empire Strikes Back -- On the East End, in 1674, Transcript of a Lecture Delivered by Donald Shomette on September 12, 1998 (East Hampton Library. Long Island Collection) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/donaldshomettelecture.htm
This, like the author's spellbinding book, Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672-1674, on which the lecture is based, is a fascinating read, recommended to anyone remotely interested in 17th century English or Dutch colonial history or who likes their history both readable and well-researched.
-- English Colonization
John Scott, Scoundrel, by Molly McCarthy (Newsday, Inc. Long Island: Our Story) http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs318a,0,6633410.story
A fascinating tale of just some of the 17th century adventures of the master rogue, deceitful opportunist, who became Long Island's (and America's) first "president". This is only part of the story.
[Scott seems to have spawned enough versions of just who he was, what he stood for, and what he'd achieved, to deliberately draw the wool over the eyes of posterity. Scott was in and out of England, New England (Mass. Bay & Conn.), New Netherlands, and New-York, and was no stranger to their jails, or to cross-L.I. Sound and trans-Atlantic, or silver-tongued escapes. In 1660, with the Restoration, he appeared in court, claiming sterling Cavalier credentials, saying he had been arrested, as a boy, in the English Civil War, while cutting Parliamentarian cavalry saddle straps, in 1642, just before a crucial battle, outside London. Dressed in finery, he managed to tell his story to a newly restored, approving Charles II, gaining entry to the circles of the high nobility. He began to solicit patrons and to promote get rich quick schemes on L.I., and personal loans, only to run with or squander the money, on himself and his personal aggrandizement schemes. He attempted, more than once, to gain a proprietorship over L.I., to parley his calculatedly well-attired appearance, and influential promoters' & supposed royal favor, into deferential treatment, sometimes successfully, and to undermine Indians deeds of Setauket (Brookhaven Town) and Huntington Town landholders (the latter calling his bluff). He even attempted to do the same to the newly installed proprietors of New Jersey (Lords Berkeley & Carteret), causing grief to New York's conqueror-governor, Richard Nicholls, who officially complained, "The man was born to make mischief". The Duke of York, later King James II, had granted New Jersey lands to repay debts, and it can be imagined, was not too amused. Scott appears in English court records as a paid witness against Samuel Pepys (diarist of the Fire of London & high court official), helping land the latter in the Tower of London. When Scott's credential's were questioned, he wisely skipped the country. Pepys, released and restored to office, seems to have entertained a slight grudge, for shortly after the culprit's eventual return to England's shores, Scott quietly, permanently disappeared. -- MR]
-- French & Indian War, 1754-1763
Captain Thomas Terry's Company, New York Provincial Battalion, Suffolk County Provincial Militia, Inc. (The Company) http://captainterrys.com/history.html
Diary of Captain William Yarrington, 1738-1811, French & Indian War, Coram, transcribed by Elizabeth Yarrington Russell, Clara Hoyt Russell, new transcript by Carol Russell Law, 1976 (Longwood's Journey) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/diaries/yardiary.htm
French and Indian War (Longwood's Journey) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/index.htm
Includes information on a Brookhaven Town draft during the war, and Suffolk County muster rolls, by year.
-- Piracy & Privateering
The Execution of Captain Kidd (Story of London.com) http://www.storyoflondon.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4
Pirates on Long Island, by Jeannette Edwards Rattray, excerpt from East Hampton History. Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, 1953 (Mepham High School)
Coney Island (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island
Coney Island (PBS.org American Experience) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/
PBS' website partial mirror of its documentary. Includes a timeline, photo gallery, people & places, special features (postcards, history of roller coasters, technology with a human face, film clips from the documentary), section about the film, lesson plans, children's section, and more. Naturally, it is hawking its wares.
History of Coram, by Osborn Shaw [historian], 1947 (Longwood's Journey) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/coram/sintro.htm
Brief History of Cutchogue (Cutchogue-New Suffolk Chamber of Commerce) http://www.cutchoguenewsuffolk.org/history.htm
Cutchogue (NorthFork.net) http://southoldtown.northfork.net/cutchogue.htm
Fort Corchaug (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/fortsA_D/corchaugFort.htm
Fort Corchaug and Downs Farm Preserve (NorthFork.net) http://southoldtown.northfork.net/Fort%20Corchaug.htm
Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site (U.S. Interior Department. National Park Service. National Historic Landmarks Program) http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-95678437&ResourceType=Site
Short official statement of the site’s historic and archeological significance.
History (East Hampton.com) http://www.east-hampton.com/history/
Short, interesting narrative historical overview. Sections of article: A Cradle of American History, Bizarre English Laws, Early Settlers Rule..., ...Very New Money, Year Round Paradise. Also contains History Links (in a column, to the right), grouped into the following sections: Old East Hampton (capsule histories of villages within the Town, and Gardiner's Island, clickable historic district maps) From the Town Crier (Little-Known...Historic Facts from the Town Crier, And Did You Know That...), East Hampton Historical Society, Museums, Publications, Postcards. Good reading.
East Hampton Historical Society (The Society) http://www.easthamptonhistory.org/
Includes information on its 5 museums, collections, artifacts, restoration projects, programs and calendar of events (clickable by month and year, also posting activities of related local institutions), even a recipe for samp, and contact information to area libraries, archives, and research institutions.
Resort with a History (East Hampton Chamber of Commerce) http://www.easthamptonchamber.com/resort.ihtml
Home Sweet Home [Museum, East Hampton, NY] http://www.easthampton.com/homesweethome/
This is the home referred to John Howard Payne's well-known song of the same name, which plays as you enter the site, A brief history of the house, capsule biography of Payne, color photos of a number of artifacts, and a links on East Hampton windmills complete the site.
Clickable sections: Events, Guest Book, Picture Galleries (thematic), Estates, Memory Lane (shared personal reminiscences), Great River, Islip Terrace, Archives (includes links to transcribed oral histories), Postal's (i.e., col. postcards), Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn @ Brookwood Hall, What's New, and Links.
List of Famous Long Islanders (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Long_Islanders
Village History: Farmingdale: Hardscrabble Start, Then It Took Wing (Incorporated Village of Farmingdale, N.Y.) http://www.farmingdalevillage.com/
Bald Hill, Farmingville, NY, 1965-80 [New England Lost Ski Areas Project. New York] http://www.nelsap.org/ny/bald.html
Farmingville: A Film by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini (A Camino Bluff Production) http://www.farmingvillethemovie.com/
Cultural History (Fire Island National Seashore, Patchogue, NY) http://www.nps.gov/fiis/CulturalHistory.htm
Fire Island Community Notes (Fire Island Chamber of Commerce) http://www.fireislandcc.org/commun.html
Contains brief histories of 17 villages on Fire Island: Atlantique, Cherry Grove, Corneille Estates, Davis Park, Dunewood, Fair Harbor, Fire Island Pines, Lonelyville, Ocean Bay Park, Ocean Beach, Ocean Ridge, Point-of-Woods, Robbins Rest, Saltaire, Seaview, Watch Hill, Water Island. [Note: These appear to be drawn from the ongoing series of short historical village profiles, researched and printed in the pages of the local newspaper, the Fire Island Tide.]
Villages (Fire Island Finder. FireIsland.com) http://fifinder.com/villages
Clickable list of villages
Fire Island History (Fire Island Chamber of Commerce) http://www.fireislandcc.org/fihist.html
A short, heavily photographic history.
History of Fire Island (Fair Harbor.com) http://www.fairharbor.com/history_of_fi.htm
Includes links to short historical sketches of 4 Fire Island villages (Camp Cheerful, Fair Harbor, Ocean Beach, and Saltaire). Other links at this site: Historical Overview, 1938 Hurricane, Noreaster 1/87, Fire Island Light, and Big Catch (about a whale shark, caught in 1935).
Park Museum Collection Profile (Fire Island National Seashore, Patchogue, NY] http://data2.itc.nps.gov/museum/mcollectiondetail.cfm?area=co&alphacode=fiis
General William Floyd House (The Caretakers/Owners, Westernville, NY) http://www.generalwilliamfloydhouse.org/
This is the post-Revolutionary upstate New York residence of William Floyd, after he left L.I. Clickable sections (which often feature clear color photos): Welcome, House [a brief history of it], The Patriot [a brief biographical sketch of William Floyd], Virtual Tour [still pending], The Forge, Resources [who they used, for what skills, and a short bibliography], Feature Article [gravestones], Events, Bicentennial, NHL [National Historical Landmark status], Descendants [col. photo, rough genealogical chart with most earlier and some later dates], and Restoration [brief notes on Room Usage, Research, Plaster, Paint, Floor]. The much-maligned upstate-downstate connection is alive and well here.
William Floyd Estate (Fire Island National Seashore) http://www.nps.gov/fiis/Wfe/wfe.html
This Estate, part of Fire Island National Seashore, does not receive the attention that it deserves, were it a distinct entity n its own. This site provides a minimal overview of its significance, with a minimalist internal links. This was the L.I. home of 8 generations of the Floyd family, including William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was also his home at the time of the signing. Unfortunately, the house has been interpreted multi-generationally, not to William Floyd's time (which would have made it more of a major attraction, but conversely, may have helped to preserve it). William Floyd was a quietly active consensus builder, mostly behind the scenes in Congress, though he headed headed several significant Congressional Committees. He was a friend of the greats, but opposed Vermont secession from New York and separate statehood (corresponding regularly with N.Y.S. Governor George Clinton, on the matter, during the war.) He helped establish the U.S. Navy and was explosively outspoken in his correspondence about corrupt army contractors. Yet, he was also known for the quality of his parties. His estate was ransacked during the long British and Loyalist occupation of the Island. After the war, his daughter, Kitty, was courted by two future early U.S. presidents, spurning James Madison, to Dolly's later good fortune.]
#Floyd, Catherine ("Kitty")
Madison's Unrequited Love: How a Long Island Teen Broke the Future President's Heart (Newsday, Inc. Long Island: Our Story) http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs427a,0,6961091.story
1774-1783 (United States. Library of Congress. American Memory Project. The James Madison Papers. James Madison Timeline, 1751-1836) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/mjmtime2.html
Contains miniature portraits of James Madison & Kitty Floyd
#Flushing, NY (& Flushing Meadows, NY) -- History [formerly Vlissingen]
Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing to Governor Stuyvesant, December 27, 1657 (Flushing Monthly Meeting) http://www.nyym.org/flushing/remons.html
Text of one of the earliest documents & precedents in the colonial U.S., of a public demand for freedom of worship, in this case, in the Dutch colony of New Netherlands.
New York World's Fair, 1939-1940, by Alan Anderson (Websyte.com) http://www.websyte.com/alan/nywf.htm
Iconography of Hope: The 1939-1940 World's Fair (University of Virginia) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/front.htm
1964 World's Fair, by Philip Buehler (Modern Ruins) http://www.modern-ruins.com/fair/index.html
Photographic images, of mostly post-1964 changes
#Gardiners Island, NY -- History / Gardiner Family
Captain William Kidd -- Privateer and Pirate (Historic-UK.com) http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/CaptainKidd.htm
Legends of Pirate Gold (Curbstone Press) http://www.curbstone.org/index.cfm?webpage=86
First Lady Biography: Julia Tyler (First Ladies.org) http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=11
Genealogy of John Tyler and His Descendants (Sherwood Forest: Home of President John Tyler) http://www.sherwoodforest.org/Genealogy.html
Julia Gardiner Tyler (White House.com) http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jt10.html
2nd wife of U.S. President John Tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler (Answers.com) http://www.answers.com/topic/julia-gardiner-tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889), 2nd Wife President John Tyler (1790-1862) (Laughter Genealogy Reference and Research Center. Concord Learning Systems. Blue Quill Series. Golden Nuggets of U.S. History) http://www.laughtergenealogy.com/bin/history/juliatyler.html
Fort Saybrook Monument Park (Old Saybrook.com Attractions) http://oldsaybrook.com/Attractions/
Wegwagonock and the English (Sag Harbor Express. Sag Harbor Online) http://www.sagharboronline.com/history_files/hist13.htm
“Wyandance to Lion Gardiner” (LongIslandGenealogy.com) http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/WyandanceGardener.htm
Bibliography of Long Island Geology & Hydrology, Gilbert N. Hanson (State University oNew York at Stony Brook. Department of Geosciences) http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/bib/ligeobib.html
Geology of Long Island (Garvies Point Museum & Preserve) http://www.garviespointmuseum.com/geology.php
Long Island Geology (Research & Education), Dr. J. Bret Bennington (Hofstra University. Department of Geology) http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/J_B_Bennington/research/long_island/li.html
Features enlargeable, downloadable digital elevation maps and diagrams
Long Island Geology, created by E. Bundik (Longwood High School. Earth Science) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/lhs/science/teachers/bundik/lig/
A student-teacher oriented sight, featuring basic concepts, terms, and illustrations
New Observations on the Glacial Geomorphology of Long Island from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Dr. J. Bret Bennington (Hofstra University. Department of Geology) http://pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts-03/bennington/
#Glen Cove (N.Y. : City) -- History
History of Glen Cove (Glen Cove Public Library), by Antonia Petrash, Carol Stern, & Carol McCrossen http://www.nassaulibrary.org/glencove/history/historyofglencove.html
Gravesend, Long Island http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/gean/statenisland.html
Who Was Lady Deborah Moody? http://www.moodyfamily.bravepages.com/LadyDebMoody.html
#Grand Army of the Republic (National Union Civil War Veterans' Association)
Kings County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisville State College of Agriculture and Technology, Morrisville, NY) http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/kings_gar.html
Nassau County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisville State College of Agriculture and Technology, Morrisville, NY) http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/nassau_gar.html
Queens County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisville State College of Agriculture and Technology, Morrisville, NY) http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/queens_gar.html
Suffolk County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisville State College of Agriculture and Technology, Morrisville, NY) http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/suffolk_gar.html
Continental Shipyard -- Continental Ironworks http://ragette.org/Ultimate/companies/continental/main.htm
The ironclad U.S.S. Monitor was built in this shipyard.
Greenpoint, The Garden Spot of the World (To the Point!...) http://www.greenpt.com/
Includes a number of links on Greenpoint history, including Carnes & Alfred (shipbuilders), local doo wop era musicians, the 3 chapter illustrated history (through 1855), A Greenpont Perspective, by Frank J. Dmuchowski, and links to articles, maps, and memories.
Greenpoint History (New York Architecture Images) http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GPT/gpt-history.htm
#Greenvale, N.Y. -- History
History of Greenvale (Greenvale Civic Association) http://www.greenvalecivic.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=10
#Hempstead (N.Y. : Town) -- History
History of the Town (Town of Hempstead. Clerk’s Office. Archives) http://www.townofhempstead.org/content/tc/history.html
Brief narrative history of the Town, documented with endnotes (a rare, fine example).
Town Clerk (Town of Hempstead) http://www.townofhempstead.org/content/tc/clerk.html
#Hempstead Plains -- History [Long Island’s vanishing prairie lands]
Historic Hempstead Plains -- Nassau County, Long Island (Hemsteadplains.com) http://www.hempsteadplains.com/
Contains links on military camps, units, and airfields on from the Civil War to the mid-20th century, information on the history of the central line of the Long Island Railroad, passing through the plains, on highway history, on aviation history, on Roosevelt Raceway, and a “What’s New?” section, all centered on the Plains. Links can be hard to read, but scrolling up or down will bring them to a section of the color background photo on which they become more legible. An interesting resource, which if classified, would be rendered more easily accessible.
Silas Wood and Benj[amin] F. Thompson, by Robert R. Coles, © 1970 (LIGenealogy.com) http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/WoodThompson.html
Thomas R. Bayles Local History Room (Longwood Public Library, Middle Island, NY) http://longwood.suffolk.lib.ny.us/bayleslist.html
A brief biographical sketch, and directory of pamphlets in the collection
#Historic Sites [on the National Register]
New York -- Suffolk County (National Register of Historic Places) http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/NY/Suffolk/state.html
Suffolk County Historic Sites (Suffolk County, N.Y. Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation) http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/webtemp3.cfm?dept=10&id=2317
New York -- Nassau County (National Register of Historic Places) http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/NY/Nassau/state.html
New York -- Queens County (National Register of Historic Places) http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/NY/Queens/state.html
New York -- Kings County (National Register of Historic Places) http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/NY/Kings/state.html
A directory of historical societies, arranged alphabetically by the village in which they have their headquarters (not by society name), providing address, telephone number, and when the society has one, their website address (clickable). Some societies' headquarters village may not be obvious from their name. A search of the site by the association's name or scrolling should get you to the entry fairly quickly.
John Philip Holland (1841-1914), and His Submarines, researched and comp. by Gary W. McCue http://www.geocities.com/gwmccue/
The premier site on the web on the subject. Accessible, classified index, well designed and presented. Includes digitized primary material and period photos.
Online Library (Town of Huntington) http://town.huntington.ny.us/permit_forms.cfm
Scan down to Huntington’s 350th Anniversary Celebration. Though the anniversary has come and gone, this is an interesting place to become acquainted with, or expand one’s acquaintance with, the history of the town, whether it is Walt Whitman, William K. Vanderbilt, Jupiter Hammon (America’s first black poet), Booker T. Washington’s sojourn here, Henry Stimpson, or Harry Chapin, or Huntington’s rowdy colonial and Revolutionary era roots, its historic sites or its libraries’ historic resources, there is something for just about everyone here.
Timeline of Huntington History (Town of Huntington) http://town.huntington.ny.us/permit_pics/231.pdf
Town History (Town of Huntington) http://town.huntington.ny.us/town_history.cfm
Long Island's Hurricane History, comp. by Dawn Rosenberg McKay (About.com. Long Island, NY) http://longisland.about.com/cs/weather/a/hurricane_past.htm
Update: Long Island Native & Black History, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster-Walker
Created in mid-2006, this highly recommended, thoroughly researched site, already contains a wealth of information on both L.I. Native American and African-American history and genealogy. It is loaded with primary documents, citing sources, as well as providing useful and often hard-to-find material, drawn from secondary sources. Its main sections are: 2006 Events. -- Birth, Marriage and Death Records. -- Books. -- LI Cemeteries. -- LI Libraries. -- U.S. Colored Troops (in Civil War military units); a Archives, and a Blog, to which you may subscribe, at no charge. It also provides the editor's credentials, which are elaborated further offline in her new autobiography, The Colored Girl from Long Island. Quite a number of issues of Update have already appeared online and are downloadable at http://longislandgenealogy.com/LINandBNewsletter/Vol1_No1-8.pdf Each of the issues provides useful links to other sites.
Invisible People of Suffolk, Nassau, Kings and Queens Counties, New York State (And Extended Families): The Africans and Native Americans Genealogies, comp. & ed. by Sandi Brewster- Walker (RootsWeb.com) http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sbrewsterw
Local Native Americans (Hamptons.com), by Dr. John Strong http://www.thehamptons.com/indians/history.html
Focused on the Shinnecock & Montauk Indians, of the South Fork of L.I., this information-rich site provides recent reinterpretations of local Indian history, using recent and older archeological findings, historical documents and records in transcription (e.g., Indian land deeds), and historical material. Main sections: Local Native Americans (The Shinnecock Indians, The Montauk Indians, The People, The Exhibition, The Indian Pow Wow, About the Pow Wow, Circassian Shipwreck, Some words [a poem]), Origins of the Tribe, Shinnecock's Evolution, How the Land Was Lost, The Deeds (How the Land was Lost [a documentary chronology], Corn & Coats for Ancestral Lands, Power of the Montauk Sachem [document establishing primacy, of 2/11/1663], Land to the Trustees [of Southampton]), Sharecropping the Sea: Shinnecock Whalers in the Seventeenth Century). Well worth perusing.
The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century Indians in New England, by Lois Scozzari, Graduate Student in American Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, originally published in the Connecticut Review (Hartford Web Publishing) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/037.html
Transcript of Indians of Eastern Long Island Lecture, Delivered by John Strong, Friday, November 8, 2002: The Ancestors: An Overview of Montaukett Prehistory (East Hampton Library) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/johnstrong_02.html
Wyandanch: Sachem of the Montauketts, Transcripts of a Lecture Delivered by John Strong, Ph.D., January 31, 1998 (East Hampton Library) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/johnstronglecture.htm
Garbage Barge Begins Its Lengthy Trek (News of the Odd) http://www.newsoftheodd.com/article1018.html
Follow the fascinating links not only at this site, but from the website's home page. Robert Moses: Cornelius Amory Pugsley Gold Medal Award, 1936 (Texas A&M University. Recreation, Park, & Tourism Sciences) http://www.rpts.tamu.edu/pugsley/Moses.htm
Features a brief history of the station and several historic photos
Bryant Library History Fact Sheet, by Myrna Sloam (Bryant Library. Bryant Room Local History Collection) http://www.nassaulibrary.org/bryant/Localhist/Quick_Facts.htm
Library History (Copiague Memorial Public Library)http://copiaguelibrary.org/library_history.htm
3 Clickable sections cover the Colonial Period (which oddly ends with...), the American Civil War (to 1900), and the 20th Century. A fascinating tale, illustrated, and nicely written. History (Deer Park Public Library) http://dprk.suffolk.lib.ny.us/html/history.html
History of Longwood Library (Longwood Public Library, Middle Island, NY) http://longwood.suffolk.lib.ny.us/history.html
PML's 100th Anniversary (Patchogue-Medford Library, Patchogue, NY) http://www.pmlib.org/Pml100th.htm
Library History (West Islip Public Library) http://www.wipublib.org/libhistory.htm
Lindenhurst 11757 (The Beacon, Babylon, NY) http://www.babylonbeacon.com/common/Beacon_Communities/Lindenhurst.html
Village of Lindenhurst History (Incorporated Village of Lindenhurst) http://www.villageoflindenhurst.com/lindenhurst_history.htm
Names and Places, by Roy Douglas (New York Times, May 9, 2007) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDE1F31F936A35757C0A961948260
Edward Albee, Shana Alexander, Nelson Algren, Michael Allin, David Allioson, Michael Amrin, David Amram, Jay Anson, David Axelrod, Louis Auchincloss
Ben Bagio, Paul Bailey, Emma L. Bellows, Peter Benchley, Gilda and Melvin Berger, James Gabriel Berman, Walter Bernstein, Stephanie Bigelow, Susan K. Blair, Carol Bleser, James Brady, Barbara Bretton, Guy Bolton, David Bouchier, Esther Penny Boutcher, Kathleen Bouvier, William Cullen Bryant, Douglas Brinkley, Bertel Brunn, Jimmy Buffett, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Robert Olen Butle
Truman Capote, Roger Caras, Mary E. Chase, David Chaskin, Vince Clemente, William Cobbett, Stephen Collins, Pam Conrad, Allistair Cooke, James Fenimore Cooper, Ellen Cooperperson, Michael Crichton, Avery Corman, Jeffrey Coven, Richard Cummings
Maury Dean, Barbara and Arthur Danto, Ellen DeMaria, Nelson DeMille, E.L. Doctorow, Pietrodi Donato, Will and Ariel Durant, Steve Dunwell
Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Elman, Elizabeth Enright, Vivian Farrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Flanagan, Marilyn French, Betty Friedan, Alan Furst
Steven Gaines, Roberta Gellis, Alonzo Gibbs, Mary Gordon, Dan Greenburg, Mary Gubitosi
Brian Heinz, Hans Henke, Joseph Heller, William Heyen, John Hoins, Barbara Howell, Michael Hinkemeyer, Alice Hoffman
John Irving
Theodore James, Velda Johnson, Fred Jones, Gloria Jones, James Jones
David Kaufeld, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, George S. King, Joseph S. King, Katherine Kirkpatrick, Jack Kerouac, John Knowles, Eric Kraft, Norbert Krapf, Aaron Kramer, Jill Krementz, Mindy Kronenberg
Ring Lardner, Roy Latham, John Lee, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Liebers, A.J. Liebling, James Lipton, Sandy London, Clarence E. Longenecker, Shirley Lord, Eric Van Lustbader, Florence Monteith Lynch
Heather Dune Macadam, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Norman Mailer, Brian Mangas, Carol Maso, Peter Matthiessen, Thomas McGonigle, Peter Mayle, Joe McCarthy, Alice McDermott, Sean McGrady, Helen MacInnes, Kate McMullen, Terence McNally, Herman Melville, Frances Miller, Herbert Mitgang, Gary Morgenstein, Christopher Morley, Willie Morris, Robert Cushman Murphy, Robert Mrazek
Josephine Nobisso,
Dr. Martin Obler, Varley O’Connor, Lillian O’Donnell, John O’Hara, Jeff O’Hare, Eugene O’Neill, Grant Overton
Charles Panati, Connie Panzarino, Betty and Michael Paraskevas, John Howard Payne, Patricia Pellicane, George Plimpton, Sylvia Porter, Elias Portnoy, Richard Posner, Orel Protopopescu, Dennis Puleston, Mario Puzo, Thomas Pynchon
Peter Quinn, Joshua Quittner
Monica Randall, Robert Rightmire, Lona Rubenstein, Everett Rattray, Roger Rosenblatt, Judith Rossner, Sally and Bill Ruddick, Willet Ryder
Addie Sanders, Tom Schlichter, Budd, Schulberg, Roslyn and Leonard Schwartz, Lawrence Shames, Irwin Shaw, Wilfred Sheed, Gail Sheehy, Merrill Simon, Albert Skinner, Michelle Slatalla, Beatrice Small, Peter Spier, Jean Stafford, John Steinbeck, George Sterling, Peter Swet
Edwin Way Teale, Abigail Thomas, John L. Turner
Leon Uris
Bernard Waber, George Wallace, Hank Warner, James Dewey Watson, Richard F. Welsh, John Westermann, Claire Nicholas White, Walt Whitman, Phyllis Whitney, John Noble Wilford, Sloan Wilson, P.G. Wodehouse, Herman Wouk, Hilma Wolitzer
Ron Zeil
A Glimpse into Long Island's Poetic Heritage, com. & ed. by Mark Rothenberg (Central Reference, Patchogue-Medford Library & Suffolk Cooperative Library System) http://www.pmlib.org/Glimpse%20into%20LI's%20Poetic%20Heritage.htm
Writers of the East End: Responses to a Special Place, Transcript of a lecture delivered by Constance Ayers Denne, Ph.D. in August 1998 (East Hampton Library & Constance Ayers Denne) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/constanceayersdennelecture.htm
-- Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
Cedarmere (Nassau County. Parks Department) http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/official/county/agencies/Parks/Home/Where+To+Go/Museums/Parks_Cedarmere_Museum
Parks Department website of the Roslyn Harbor, NY, museum and home for many years of the poet.
Cedarmere -- A Monument to the Man, by David Kendall (Antiques & the Arts Online) http://antiquesandthearts.com/hh/hh598.htm
Renovation Grant for Cedarmere: House to Undergo Exterior Renovation, by Joe Scotchie (The Roslyn News, Online edition, August 5, 2005) http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews/2005/08/05/news/
Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry: William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878 (West Virginia University) http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/bryant.html
Following a large portrait of Bryant, is a biographical section, with additional biographical links, a teaching guide, period reviews of his poems, and links to the full text of approximately 85 of his poems, followed by a selection of links to other sites with selections of his poetry. A classified bibliography, with additional links follows.
William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878, [comp. & ed by] Ann Woodlief (Virginia Commonwealth University) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bryant/
Includes links to many of his poems, including Works by William Cullen Bryant, an extensive list (connecting to the full text of his poems, often with a brief commentary and the year in which it was written). Another link connects to a selection of his sonnets, another set compares four of his poems. There is a 1994 biographical article on the poet, by Wynn Yarbrough.
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) (Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies & Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages, Nagasaki, Japan) http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/b/bryant19ro.htm
Contains a brief biographical sketch, followed by a series of links under General Sources (Bryant pages), and Writings (including convenient links to the full text of many of his best known poems, and several other works).
-- Cooper, James Fenimore (1759-1851)
The Sea Lions (1849): Introductions to Novels by James Fenimore Cooper, by Susan Fenimore Cooper (James Fenimore Cooper Society Website and State University of New York at Oneonta) http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/Susan/susan-sealions.html
Provides an introduction to the novel, & explains both its Long Island setting, and Cooper's sojourn in the area..
James Fenimore Cooper Society (The Society) http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/
The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (1821), by James Fenimore Cooper (University of Virginia Library) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccereafpublic?id=eaf052v1&tag=public&data=/texts/eaf&part=0
Full text, clickable by chapter. Based on the activities of the Culper Spy Ring of the American Revolution, which was based in Setauket, on L.I.'s North Shore.
-- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1853-1940)
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (University of Adelaide Library, Adelaide, Australia) http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/
Full-text, clickable by chapter, plus added links. Often referred to as the quintessential 1920's Long Island Gold Coast, novel. A classic of literature..
A Brief Life of Fitzgerald (University of South Carolina) http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (University of South Carolina) http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/
The Centenary was in 1996, but this website is still worth exploration.
-- Hammon, Jupiter (1711-ca. 1806)
Jupiter Hammon (1711-c. 1806): Huntington Poet and Lloyd Family Slave (Society for the Preservation of Long Island History) http://town.huntington.ny.us/permit_pics/247.pdf
Incidentally the Joseph Lloyd Manor house, a SPLIA property, still stands, is a museum, and contains exhibits on the family, its slaves, and Jupiter Hammon.
Jupiter Hammon Page (1711-c. 1806) (San Antonio College, TX) http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/jhammon.htm
Hammon, a slave of the Lloyd family of Lloyd Neck, in Huntington Town, was the first black poet in U.S. history. The site contains text or links to the text of several of his chief religious works, including: "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries", "An Address to Miss Phyllis Wheatley, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
Address to the Negroes of the State of New York, by Jupiter Hammon (University of Virginia) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/readex/20400.html
Contains the full text of Hammon's lengthy recommendation that slaves be good, content servants to their masters. Some scholars say that that is merely the veneer for public expression of a disguised undercurrent of discontent. Others view him as as sort of "Uncle Tom".
-- Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
About John Steinbeck: John Steinbeck of New York, by David Houston, adapted from Internet Sources (Long Island Reads.org) http://www.longislandreads.org/aboutjohn2005.html
While not a native Long Islander, Steinbeck moved here, and spent his later years in Sag Harbor. Many of his mature works were written there. Includes links to several major Steinbeck sites.
The Walt Whitman Archive, Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, editors (The Archives) http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Main sections: Introduction (also includes a FAQ), Whitman's Manuscripts (finding aids classified), Whitman's Published Works, Biography (includes a chronology), Criticism (contemporary and current), Images of Whitman (by decade), Audio Recording, Whitman's Disciples, Teaching Materials, Bibliography (actually a search engine), Support, Staff, Conditions of Use, and Search.
Paumanok: And My Life on It as a Child and a Young Man, by Walt Whitman (Bartleby.com, from Prose Works. 1892) http://www.bartleby.com/229/1007.html
Full text. Paumanok is the most popular of several local Algonquian names for Long Island. Note: The Bartleby.com site for Walt Whitman at http://www.bartleby.com/people/WhitmnW.html contains links to the full-text of some of his chief works.
Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection (U.S. Library of Congress. American Memory Project) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/wwhome.html
1995 relocation of long-missing (since 1942) Whitman manuscript notebooks for Song of Myself, their preservation, a Library of Congress Walt Whitman bibliography, and more.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (PoemHunter.com) http://www.poemhunter.com/walt-whitman/poet-3108/
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center (The Center, West Hills, NY, in the Walt Whitman Shopping Center Mall) http://www.waltwhitman.org/
The sites Whitman Links leads to sites sometimes including the full text of his poetry and other writings, as well as to a host of related links. There are links to criticism, biography, chronology, history of the birthplace site and of the association, sponsorship of Poets in Residence Program (annually honoring distinguished poets, since 1981), their events calendar, exhibitions, and more.
Lloyd Harbor -- A Brief History (Incorporated Village of Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County, NY) http://www.lloydharbor-ny.org/village/lh_brief_history.htm
A succinct capsule history of an interesting spot of earth, that runs chronologically, and includes two clear color photos of rather significant historic buildings.
The Society has put together a well-conceived, fairly user-friendly website. Pass your mouse over one of the blue stars on the map (on the right), and the name of the neighborhood will appear. Click either on a star or on one of the alphabetically-listed neighborhoods listed on the left, and a brief history of that neighborhood, will follow, usually with period illustrations, along with a thematic chart of clickable related pages. Neighborhoods is only one of the Society's approaches to its history, which include a thematic directory, ones that link to related historical and preservation sites, associations, and agencies, a photo gallery, a variety of information about the Society, a timeline that may be clicked by date span or for information by month, a bookstore, a place to obtain a license to use site images, and a link to their home page, which contains news and more information. An impressive site.
Long Island Rail Road History Website (Unofficial), hosted by Bob Andersen http://www.lirrhistory.com/
A model student site, depicting what its possible for students to achieve, of wider public and historical interest. Includes transcriptions of original documents. Permits a number of chronological, geographic, and thematic approaches. Contains cemetery records, diary entries, capsule biographies, obituaries, and cemetery records, maps, early censes, and newspaper entries, and a “what’s new section, among other things. A valuable resource, deserving of wide attention.
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs) http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm
Main Links: Unit History Project, Veterans' Oral History, Articles, Events, Flags, Forts, Heraldry, Links, Pictures, Press, Research, DMNA Homepage, NY Army National Guard, NY Air National Guard, NY Guard, NY Naval Militia, NYS Military Heritage Institute. Searchable.
Montauk History (Gurney’s Inn) http://www.gurneys-inn.com/Local/History.htm
Montauk History [a chronology drawn by Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, from Albert R. Holden's Pictorial History of Montauk, 3rd ed. Montauk, NY: Holden's Publications, n.d.] http://nynjctbotany.org/lgtofc/montaukh.html
Camp Hero, Montauk, New York http://ca.ckwinfo.net/lis/hero/
The Coast Artillery at Camp Hero http://www.skylighters.org/camphero/
Montauk Air Force Station: Historical Background, site curator, David E. Bender http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/seafarer/665/hist-00.html
Our Gang Comedy -- Long Island Film History: Silent Our Gang Comedy, Little Rascals from Sayville (Geocities.com) http://www.geocities.com/timmlimm/ourgang.htm
In the Beginning (Long Island Film / TV Foundation) http://www.longislandfilm.com/begin2.cfm
A brief, illustrated summary of early L.I. filmmaking, and stars.
Following the title of the author's pioneering study, this website contains chronologically-presented digitized sets of selected period maps images, with succinct descriptions, from the colonial period to the late 20th century. Arranged in six generally clickable chapters, with links to other websites containing L.I. maps (at the very end of Chapter 6). Rewards browsing and study. Also contains links to the author's Long Island Cartobibliography, and to the main site of the SUNY at Stony Brook Map Collection, the region's finest.
Pirates, Wrecks, Whales, and Salvage, Transcript of Lecture Delivered by Noel J. Gish, March 27, 1998 (East Hampton Library) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/lic/lectures/noelgishlecture.htm
Our History (Village of Massapequa Park) http://www.ci.massapequa-park.ny.us/history1.html
The Knapps Lived Here, By Ken Spooner (Ken Spooner) http://www.spoonercentral.com/knapp.html
This fascinating website rewards browsing with well-documented revelations. Ties local Mastics, Moriches, and Shirley history, personalities, and stories, to people, places, events, locally to internationally. The site's webmaster, who grew up in the locale, is now a resident of Nashville, TN, and has followed historical L.I. leads into many surprising and informative, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes unforgettable personalities and places.
Includes site-by-site information on Long Island locations, general background information, information on the missiles.
Illustrated History of the Moriches Bay Area, by Van & Mary Field http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/libraries/cmor/illushis.htm
An alphabetic directory of LIMA member member institutions, with village of its headquarters, telephone number, and, for many a clickable link to its website, for more information.
About Muttontown (Village of Muttontown) http://www.villageofmuttontown.com/
Nassau County History (RootsWeb.com) http://users.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/index.htm
After looking at the What's New links, scroll down to find the heart of this site, under the headings, Our History (, Census (1698, 1880, 1892, and Polling Place in 1891), Favorite Long Island Links (a few genealogical and news- oriented sites), Religion/Churches (don't look here for the history of any of Nassau's synagogues, temples, or mosques, though there is historical material related to specific churches of various denominations, to Quakers, to marriages, a subscription list, a fire department, Whittier's poem "John Underhill", and more), Newspapers (a partial general listing, clickable genealogically-oriented abstracts from number of newspapers, and a link to the newly-defunct New York State Newspaper Project, and some biographies from 1898), and Real Estate (historical land sales and transfers in 1884 & 1892, and new buildings in 1890 Rockeville Centre). Below these are a thematic series of links (some of which repeat, some adding to the material above). These include: Nassau County Towns & Villages, Geographical Terminology, The Ethnic Experience (African-American, English, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and many others in the works), Searchable Databases, Population Survey, Research Libraries, Historical Societies, General Interest, Historical Societies, Government, Cemeteries, Churches, Veterans, Surnames, Colleges, and History.
Provides some basic information on Nassau County, then lists villages alphabetically, with brief annotations on prior names. These include links to additional historical material for many of villages listed: Baldwin, Cedarhurst, East Rockaway, Franklin Square, Freeport, Garden City, Glen Cove, Hewlett, Hicksville, Inwood, Long Beach [actually an incorporated city], Lynbrook, Merrick, Near Rockaway, Oceanside, Plainedge, The Rockaways, Rockville Centre, and Woodmere. The nature of the historical material about the village varies, often including or linking to transcribed primary sources, and there are usually at least one or two additional links of interest near the bottom of the article. Well worth reading or browsing.
-- Kings County / Borough (Brooklyn), N.Y.C., N.Y.
New York -- Kings County -- Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places) http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Kings/districts.html
-- Queens County / Borough, N.Y.C., N.Y.
New York -- Queens County (National Register of Historic Places) http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Queens/state.html
New York -- Queens County -- Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places) http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Queens/districts.html
New York -- Suffolk County (National Register of Historic Places) http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Suffolk/state.html
New York -- Suffolk County -- Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places) http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Suffolk/districts.html
Brief History of New Suffolk (Cutchogue-New Suffolk Chamber of Commerce) [scroll down, past the Brief History of Cutchogue] http://www.cutchoguenewsuffolk.org/history.htm
Invention of the Submarine (Vector Site.net) http://www.vectorsite.net/twsub1.html#m5
New Suffolk, Long Island, New York State: Home of the First Submarine Base (United States Submarine Veterans) http://www.ussvi.org/nsuffolk/nsuffolk.htm
#New York City (Brooklyn & Queens)
New York: A City of Neighborhoods (New York City. Department of City Planning) http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dcp/html/neighbor/neigh.shtml
New York City consists of 5 boroughs (or counties), 2 of which are on Long Island (Kings and Queens, Kings being also known as Brooklyn). This site contains a color map of clickable NYC areas, numbered separately within each borough, or a dropdown alphabetic list of neighborhoods, from which you may select a neighborhood. Either approach leads to a larger version of the map, showing neighborhoods in the vicinity. Below the Map with be a list of name of the borough, CD (community district), and the numbers of the community districts shown on the current map, e.g.: Brooklyn CD 9, Brooklyn CD 14, Brooklyn CD 15, Brooklyn CD 17, Brooklyn CD 18. By selecting (clicking on) one, you get a multi-page statistical community profile, usually including maps, charts, and tables (culled from census material). It is also useful to click on the Sitemap, which outlines the kinds of information available. While focused on recent information. This may prove useful for comparisons with such historical information as is available.
List of Brooklyn, New York Neighborhoods (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brooklyn,_New_York_neighborhoods
List of Brooklyn, New York Neighborhoods (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Queens_neighborhoods
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902, Online! (Brooklyn Public Library) http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Provides browseable, searchable digital facsimiles of a major daily Brooklyn newspaper, that includes a great deal of period information on Long Island communities as far away as Montauk and Orient, as well as New York City, Long Island Regional, New York State, national, and international news, editorials, period illustrations, advertisements, announcements, obituaries, poetry, and much more. A rich source of information. Brooklyn Public Library is working on digitizing subsequent issues and years.
Long Island Newspapers (Nassau County Historical Society) http://users.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/linewspaper.htm
A partial list, emphasizing western Long Island
Suffolk Historic Newspapers (Suffolk Cooperative Library System) http://shn.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
Modeled on the Brooklyn Eagle Online site (above), this site provides browseable, searchable digital facsimiles of selected, short, overlapping runs of the following weekly newspapers: The Long Islander (Huntington, 1839-1863) [Walt Whitman, was once its editor], The Corrector (Sag Harbor, NY, 1858-1871), South Side Signal (Babylon, NY, 1869-1883), Long Island Traveler (Cutchogue, NY, 1880-1893), Port Jefferson Echo (Port Jefferson, NY, 1892-1906). The newspapers may be searched individually, or collectively. Each of these newspapers include local and Long Island news well beyond the bounds of the village in which they were published, as well as state, national, and international coverage, editorials, period illustrations, advertisements, announcements, obituaries, poetry, local gossip, and much more. Other newspapers are to be added, and expanded digital coverage of the above newspapers is also likely.
Brookhaven and the Nobel Prize (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/
[James Cronin and Val Fitch]. CP Violation, 1980 (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_80.asp
Brookhaven Lab’s Raymond Davis, Jr. wins Nobel Prize in Physics (Brookhaven National Laboratory) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr100802.htm
[Raymond Davis, Jr.] Detection of Cosmic Neutrinos, 2002 (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_02.asp
Alfred D. Hershey (Nobelprize.org Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1969) http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1969/
[Leon Lederman, Jack Steinberger, and Melvin Schwartz] Discovery of the Muon-Neutri http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_88.asp
[T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang]. Parity Violation, 1957 (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_57.asp
Barbara McClintock (Nobelprize.org Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1983) http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1983/
[Roderick McKinnon] The Chemistry of the Cell, 2003 (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_03.asp
Richard J. Roberts (Nobelprize.org Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1993) http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1993/
Theodore Roosevelt -- Biography (Nobelprize.org The Nobel Peace Prize, 1906) http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-bio.html
[Samuel C.C. Ting] Discovery of the J/psi Particle, 1976 (Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nobel Prizes at Brookhaven) http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_76.asp
James Dewey Watson (Nobelprize.org Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1983) http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1962/
Website of a popular museum village, which has saved from demolition, transported, and restored, a fair number of historic buildings and artifacts. These have been set on a fairly sprawling site, with costumed interpreters, fam animals, dusty dirt roads, and reenactments of agricultural, social, professional, policial, family, and military life & events, on rustic early Long Island. Period coverage is approximately from the 1780's-1860's.
Ed. note: The museum-village’s bookstore is good place to look for recent publications on local history (esp. for a Nassau County), though there is much there that is purely for the tourist or children's trade, some of which has little to do with L.I., itself. The Weathervane Bookstore in the basement of the Suffolk County Historical Society building, in Riverhead, is also well worth exploration, for its selections of both print and hard to find local history publications.) In either case, caveat emptor. Old Bethpage Village Restoration (in north central Nassau County) and Hallockville, Inc. (in eastern Suffolk County) are presently the nearest things, on L.I. to a Sturbridge Village. Strange that an Island with a European history going back to the early-to-mid 17th century, and a prehistory going back thousands of years, still lacks a decent museum village (with interpreters) dealing with either of those themes, or even with its significant role in the American Revolution.
The Early Settlement of Oyster Bay, by John E. Hammond (Oyster Bay Historical Society. The Freeholder: Magazine Online) http://www.oysterbayhistory.org/freejh1.html
Covers the areas history to about 1667, with the beginning of the replacement of Dutch with English law.
The Early Settlement of Oyster Bay, by John E. Hammond (The Oyster Bay Historical Society. The Freeholder: Magazine Online) http://www.oysterbayhistory.org/freejh1.html
Illustrated narrative account of the Anglo-Dutch rivalry for control of the Oyster Bay region of L.I.
Town History (Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island) http://oysterbaytown.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={66B136D0-0074-4D7B-86BF-244C2AC3FF04
General history of the town, links to historical photos and to Newsday articles relating to the history of individual villages within the Town of Oyster Bay.
Brief History of Patchogue Ambulance Co., by Paul Logan [Patchogue Ambulance Co., Inc.,] © 2003 http://www.patchogueambulance.com/pachistory.htm
Main sections: Learn About the GPHS (officers, meetings, membership information, upcoming events), Swan River Schoolhouse [museum], What's New in Patchogue, Contact Us. Includes postcard images, articles on (1) boat builder, Gil Smith, (2) the shipwreck of the Louis V. Place (1895); & (3) a brief history of Swan River Schoolhouse, owned by the Society.
History of the Patchogue Theatre (The Theatre) http://www.patchoguetheater.com/history.htm#top
Past Officers of the Village of Patchogue (Village of Patchogue) http://www.patchoguevillage.org/history.htm
Patchogue, L.I., N.Y., in the Spanish-American War (& Its Immediate Aftermath) (Patchogue-Medford Library & The Long Island Advance) http://www.pmlib.org/spampadv.htm
While a bibliography this includes some full text articles and advertisements, drawn, with permission, from the pages of the Patchogue Advance, with plenty of period flavor (Searchable, using Control + F[ind]).
The Patchogue-Medford Area's Journey [website outline] (Patchogue-Medford Library) http://www.pmlib.org/patchoguemedfordsjourney.htm
Main sections: Geographic Orientation, Historical Community Profiles, Basic Reference Works, Slices of P-M Time (Chronological Approach), Themes Across P-M Time (Subject Approach)
Patchogue-Medford Library Celia M. Hastings Local History Room (Patchogue-Medford Library) http://www.pmlib.org/pmllhis.htm
Directions to the room, hours open, mission statement, brief histories of the Library and of the Local History Room, Resources (brief descriptions of the Book, Serial, Vertical File, Electronic, L.I. Genealogical, Audiovisual, & Archival collections), Other services, Publications, Links, and Leads.
Subject Heading Index to the Long Island and Patchogue Vertical Files, comp. by Carie Locke (Patchogue-Medford Library) http://www.pmlib.org/LIVF.html
Chronology of the Pequot War (Columbia University. Barnard College) http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~rmccaugh/earlyAC/pequottl.htm
Narrative of the Pequot War, by Lion Gardiner (1660) (RootsWeb.com) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tmetrvlr/hd8.html
In 3 parts, parts 2 & 3 clickable from this page.
The Pequot Massacre: An Exercise in Seeking Truth from Facts, by Tom Big Warrior http://www.weyanoke.org/tbw-PequotMassacre.html
Arranged chronologically, in 5 sections, followed by a solid, handy bibliography.
#Prohibition (Rum Running & Rum Row)
New York's "Rum Row": Bootlegging on Long Island, by Jim Merritt (New York State Archives Partnership Trust, v. 2, no. 3 Winter 2003) http://www.archives.nysed.gov/apt/magazine/archivesmag_past.shtml#Winter2003Feature
#Psychiatric Centers
Rustic Dreams, Human Nightmares: The Important Lessons Learned on Long Island at Three of America's Largest Mental Institutions Came at an Awful Price, by Jamie Talan (Newsday, Inc. Long Island: Our Story) http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-century_of_science_dispsych,0,4727264.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation
A Selective Memorial for an Unsettling Past, by David Everitt (New York Times, May 14, 2007) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D03E3D9123CF93AA15751C1A9649C8B63
#Queens County[or Borough], N.Y.C. -- History
The History: Settling Down and Building a Borough, by David Oats (Queensline) http://www.queenstribune.com/anniversary2002/history.htm
A Walk Through Queens, with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis (Thirteen, WNET New York) http://www.thirteen.org/queens/index.html
Friends of Long Island Wireless History (The Friends) http://www.sayville.com/about.html
Long Island Wireless Historical Society (The Society) http://www.liwhs.org/
The Society's membership includes, among others, some of the dwindling number of original radio pioneers. Main sections: Our Society, L.I. Wireless, Newsletter, Links, Contact Us, Join Us.
The Telefunken / Sayville Wireless (Sayville.com) http://www.sayville.com/wireless.html
Radio: The Roots of Broadcasting (TV Handbook.com) http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_radio.htm
-- Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937
Guglielmo Marconi: Cento Anni di Radio http://www.ips.it/mus/marconi.html
Nikola Tesla, by Eugenii Katz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Faculty of Science. Institute of Chemistry) http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/tesla.htm
Nikola Tesla, Inventor, 1856-1943, by Robin Chew (Lucidcafe Interactive) http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/tesla.html
Bryant Room Local History Collection (Bryant Library) http://www.nassaulibrary.org/bryant/Localhist/BRYANTROOM.HTM
Battle of Long Island 1776 (BritishBattles.com) http://www.britishbattles.com/long-island.htm
A brief summary of the battle, including the British (but not American) order of battle, as well as a generalized map and accompanying illustrations in color and b&w.
Battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776: British Victory but Washington Escapes (Virtual War Museum. Revolutionary War Hall) http://www.warmuseum.net/revolutionarywarhall/BATTLEOFLONGISLAND.COM/
History of Colonel Glover's 14th [Mass.] Continental [Infantry] Regiment: Saving the Army at Long Island http://1-14th.com/14th-1stContEvacLI.htm
The risky venture that was the U.S.'s Revolutionary War's Dunkirk.
Overall Map of the Battle of Long Island, by Henry P. Johnson (New York Public Library and NUFreedom.com) http://www.nyfreedom.com/brooklynmap.htm
A slow loader, but worth the wait, if you are interested in the historical terrain. Helps to know something about the progress of the battle, before viewing.
NYS Military Forts, Long Island, 1770-1800 (New York State. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/maps/fortMapB_LongIsland.html
Long Island's Loyalists: The Misunderstood Americans, by Andrew C. Batten (The Freeholder: The Magazine of the Town of Oyster Bay, [Spring 1999]) http://www.raynhamhallmuseum.org/freespring99.html
On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies (The Institute) http://www.royalprovincial.com/index.htm
Searchable site, that includes, e.g.: History, War Chronology, Battles & Campaigns, Maps & Gazeteer, Major Figures, Theaters & Actors, Music & Poetry, Military, Genealogy, Reenacting.
-- Meigs' Raid [on Sag(g) Harbor], 1777
Meigs' Raid Reenactment: 225th Anniversary of the Attack on Sagg Harbor (Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce) http://www.sagharborchamber.com/meigs.ht
Meigs' Raid: War Goes Well, We Win, Pamela Thiele (Sag Harbor Express) http://www.sagharborchamber.com/meigs.htm
-- New London & Groton Raid, 1781
Arnold's Raid on New London, September 6, 1781 (USHistory.com American Revolution) http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1323.html
Benedict Arnold, in British (Tory) uniform, raided his home town, and Fort Griswold, on the opposite side of the Thames River, in Connecticut, and reported its success to his superiors, when he returned to his jumping (i.e., sailing) off point, at Greenport, on the North Fork of eastern L.I., in part to divert American attention from Cornwallis and Yorktown, VA.
Fort Griswold Home Page, by Michael Meals (RevWar.com) http://www.revwar.com/ftgriswold/
Includes links to after action, statistical, and battle reports, information on the units of both sides, the massacre, and the burning of New London.
Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County http://users.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/Revolution/index2.htm
-- Queens Rangers [an Infantry Regiment, raised among the Loyalists of Queens County, L.I.]
The Queens Rangers (1st American Regiment) (Land Forces of Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth), by T.F. Mills http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-usa/prov1775/am1qr.htm
The Culper Gang: June 19, 1779 -- George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge (University of Michigan. School of Information. Clements Library) http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-timeline.html
George Washington, Spymaster Extraordinaire, by S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat, 32° (The Author) http://www.srmason-sj.org/council/journal/feb00/poteat.html
George Washington's Culper Spy Ring (Gaston County Public Library, Gastonia, NC) http://www.co.gaston.nc.us/CommunityCalendar/2005-10-01CulperSpyRing.htm
The Setauket Spies (History Close at Hand: Local 18th Century History), by Beverly C. Tyler (Three Village Historical Society) http://threevillagehistoricalsociety.org/18thcent.html
A summary of the roles of each of the key participants in the spy network, who risked their lives, in shuttling information and requests for information in a wide circuit between Washington's headquarters, the central Connecticut shore, Setauket, L.I., and British Headquarters, North America, in New York City; along with some of their intelligence coups and headaches.
-- Tallmadge Raid, 1780 [on Ft. St. George (Mastic Beach, NY) & Hay Depot (Coram, NY)]
225th Anniversary of the Raids on Long Island: Major Benjamin Tallmadge's Attack on Fort St. George and the Burning of the Forage at Corum [i.e., Coram], New York, October 29-30, 2005 (Brigade of the American Revolution) http://www.brigade.org/barcal/2005/Raids.html
The Badge of Military Merit: Purple Heart of the American Revolution (Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, Inc.) http://www.ctssar.org/articles/badge_of_military_merit.htm
Sgt. Elijah Churchill, 2d Regt., Light Dragoons, was the first American soldier to reeive this award [after whom we are now graced with a Northport pub named, in celebration; i.e., Elijah Churchill's Public House http://www.elijahchurchills.com/]. It was awarded on 8/7/1782, for action related to the 1780 Tallmadge Raid, and 1781 Raid on Ft. Slongo (or Salonga), on Long Island. Mr. Churchill had the good fortune not to succumb to his wounds, in attaining this distinction, as has often been the case, in subsequent years.
The Burning of the Hay at Coram, by Thomas R. Bayles (Longwood's Journey) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/amrev/hay.htm
Account of a daring 1780 whaleboat raid (one of many across Long Island Sound, during the war), authorized by George Washington, executed fairly flawlessly by his spy-chief, Benjamin Tallmadge. Incorporates transcriptions of original documents, and includes links to 4 facsimiles and transcribed period documents including Tallmadge's report on the raid, a handwritten letter from Capt. Caleb Brewster to Benjamin Tallmadge, an IOU from the 22nd Hussars, Queens Rangers (aTory unit) for confiscated hay, and another one for items confiscated from the Stills family.
History of Riverhead, from Newsday’s “Long Island: Our Story” (Riverhead Republicans) http://www.riverheadgop.org/history/
Riverhead (N.Y. : Town). Town Historian, Georgette L. Case http://www.riverheadli.com/historian.html
Contains a brief history of the Town, a link to a Landmarks Preservation brochure, and contact information to reach the Town Historian.
About Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt Association) http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/
Main sections: (1) Life of Theodore Roosevelt (biography, photographs, genealogy, presidential facts, film clips, myths, legends, & trivia, quotes, recollections of his father) (2) Theodore Roosevelt Association, (3) Explore the Living World of Theodore Roosevelt (sites, parks, sanctuaries, library, and ships associated with the president), (4)TR Research Resources (bibliography, books by Roosevelt [full-text], book reviews, cartoons, lesson plans, speeches, related website links, and more), (5) Teddy & the Children's Room (origin of the teddy bear, face on Mt. Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, football, and more). In addition there are, e.g.: news links, links to an online TR Cyclopedia, inaugural speech texts, a section on TR's conservation legacy. A useful site on the U.S. President from Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site: The Extended Web Page (U.S. Interior Department. National Park Service.) http://www.nps.gov/sahi/home.htm
Theodore Roosevelt's home & "summer White House". Negotiations were hosted here to end the Russo-Japanese War. Young Eleanor Roosevelt was a frequent guest here. More information is just a click away.
Treaty of Portsmouth (Russo-Japanese Relations in the Far East) http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/gal_ports.html [in English & Russian]
The initial discussions leading to the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War, were held at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's home in Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y. For his efforts, in Oyster Bay, and hosting weeks of throny negotiations in Portsmouth, N.H., Roosevelt would eventually be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1906). Russia's significant losses in the war, on land and sea, led to the abortive Revolution of 1905, and with its WWI defeats, set the stage for the October and November Revolutions of 1917. Japan emerged from the treaty as a world power.
Sayville, Long Island, New York, History: Sayville's Best and Brightest (Sayville.8k.com) http://www.sayville.8k.com/
Strong on surprises and on the sensational, well worth perusing. It does make an impression.
Brief History of the Caroline Church of Brookhaven (Episcopal), Setauket, Long Island, New York (The Church) http://www.carolinechurch.org/welcome/history.htm
Long Island's Spy Chain (Long Island Patriots and Their Stories) http://longislandgenealogy.com/patriots.html#spy
On the American Culper (or Setauket) spy ring of the Revolutionary War
Setauket Presbyterian Church http://www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us/minne/Pesbyterian%20Church.htm
Setauket Rubber Factory http://www.3villagecsd.k12.ny.us/minne/SetauketRubberFactory.htm
#Shelter Island (N.Y. : Town) -- History
Island History Revisited, accumulated work of Patricia and Edward Shillingburg (Shillingburg & Associates at Shelter Island.net; Shelter Island.org) http://www.shelter-island.org/new_history.html
Shelter Island: A Brief History (Shillingburg & Associates at Shelter Island.net; Shelter Island.org) http://www.shelter-island.org/history.html
The Sugar Connection: Barbados and Shelter Island, Transcript of a Lecture Delivered by Mac Griswold, on Thursday, October 18, 2001 at the East Hampton Library (East Hampton Library) http://www.easthamptonlibrary.com/lic/lectures/mac_griswold_lecture.htm
C & R Poillon: 19th Century Brooklyn Shipbuilders, by Nannette Piollon (By the Sea, The On-Line Boating Magazine) http://www.by-the-sea.com/articles/poillon.html
Ships Constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, © 2004 John R. Stobo (Columbia University) http://www.columbia.edu/~jrs9/BNY-Ships.html
A chart, with many links from ship names, generally to short, official, capsule histories. Columns provide the ship's name, type, date or year in which ship construction was begun, as well as dates it was launched and commissioned.
Lexington (National Underwater and Marine Agency) http://www.numa.net/expeditions/lexington.html
The Vanderbilt sidewheeler that caught fire and sank (in 1840), while plying L.I. Sound, with passengers aboard
Long Island Life Saving Stations, comp. by Bob Muller (Long Island Lighthouses.com) http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/lssmain.htm
Presented in 4 parts: A short Introduction, The Stations (grouped into North or South Shore, with links primarily to Coast Guard website capsule summaries), More Resources (useful links to relevant associations and government agencies, commercial links to books, and to the text of the U.S. Life Saving Service Heritage Act)
Long Island Shipwrecks (Long Island Genealogy.com) http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/shipwrecks.html
Following a chart of 11 of the many ships wrecked on or off the coast of the isle, are accounts of 4 of those ships, Cornelius Vanderbilt’s sidewheeler, Lexington, the liner SS Oregon, heavy cruiser USS San Diego, and destroyer, USS Turner.
Major Shipwrecks in Long Island Waters (Long Island Maritime Museum) http://www.limaritime.org/wrecks.html
Lists a mere 20. The museum, itself, in West Sayville, NY, has perhaps the best map of historic shipwrecks, making this look like a mere pittance. These are just some of the more celebrated cases.
Ships Log (Eco-Photo Explorers. Shipwreck Corner) http://www.ecophotoexplorers.com/shipwrecks.asp#Log
Not logs, but short essays on individual ships’ histories and their demise (usually including an illustration). There is also a Shipwreck Gallery (photos and a painting) at the same general site.
The Strange Story of the Bark Elizabeth, by Van R. Field (Long Island Genealogy.com) http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/BarkElizabeth.html
Contains narrative material on local shipbuilding and shipwrecks, suggested books (with commercial links), a directory of U.S. Life Saving Service Stations, general and regional maritime museums.
The Barbados connection
Underground railroad
Lists of manumissions (1795-1831) and of children born into slavery (1799-1806)
Slavery on Long Island, by Anne Hartell (LongIslandGenealogy.com; originally printed in Nassau County Historical Journal, Fall 1943, in turn based on a spring 1943 history seminar paper presented at Adelphi College) http://longislandgenealogy.com/Slav.htm
“Slavery Here: Right in Brooklyn and Out on Long Island: The ‘Peculiar Institution’ Seventy Years Ago Legalized in this State, Until the Year 1825 – Noted Negroes and Abolitionists – Lewis Tappan. Owen Lovejoy’s Funeral.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 29, 1891: p. 2. (See Brooklyn Daily Eagle website @ http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/)
#Smithtown (N.Y. : Town) -- History
One of 3 short, illustrated narratives, accompanied by The Legend of the Bull Ride (which is a convenient fiction) and Murals of the Smithtown Library.
Smithtown Town Clerk (Town of Smithtown) http://www.smithtowninfo.com/TownClerk'sOffice/
Town records are kept by the clerk.
1698 Southold LI Census: A Study of Identities, Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, by Norris M. Taylor, Jr. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~riss/ny/southold/1698_census.html
Founders of [the] Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, NewYork: Identifiable Immigrants Before 1698 (RootsWeb.com) http://free.ages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~riss/ny/southold/sh_founders.html
Town Historian -- Antonia Booth (Town of Southold. Historian.) http://southoldtown.northfork.net/historian.htm
Contains an enlargeable 1873 map of the Town, and clickable capsule histories of 7 villages and Fishers Island (also within Town bounds, though far closer to Connecticut than New York). The 7 villages profiled (usually with photos or other illustrations) are Cutchogue, Greenport, East Marion, Laurel, Mattituck, New Suffolk, Orient, Peconic, and Southold. The Historian's Office itself is an excellent research resource.
Camp Black -- Garden City, Hempstead Plains, 1898 (Nassau County Museum Collection & LIGenealogy.com) http://longislandgenealogy.com/CampBlack/CampBlack.html
6 period photos, with a brief description
Classified by month, and arranged by day, includes citations and frequently the full text of many articles and selected advertisements, presenting a sense of life and concerns (and blissful un-concerns) of the time. Warning: includes humorous material.
Roosevelt's Rough Riders to Meet Yearly Until None Remain (Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ) http://www.sharlot.org/exhibits/1898/rrr.html
Display of photos and memorabilia relating to the Rough Riders.
The Rough Riders, by Theodore Roosevelt [1899] (Bartleby.com) http://www.bartleby.com/51/
Full-text of the original, in 6 chapters, and 4 appendices (each clickable): I. Raising the Regiment. II. To Cuba. III. General Young's Fight at Las Guasimas. IV. The Cavalry at Santiago. V. In the Trenches. VI. The Return Home. Appendices: A. Muster Roll Out. B. Colonel Roosevelt's Report to the Secretary of War of September 10th. C. The "Round Robin" Letter. D. Corrections.
Includes Osprey Publishing's color relief map depicting the battle of San Juan Hill (reproduced in a fashion difficult to read) + a number of enlargeable documents, cablegrams, and photos, relevant to the battle.
Clickable, alphabetically-arranged directory of: (a) 95 Suffolk incorporated and unincorporated villages, (b) oldest and latest records, showing, for individuals, birth and death dates and village of residence.
Genealogically oriented links to agencies at the Town, Suffolk County, and State levels, and to historical works on aspects of county and New York State history.
Suffolk County, New York (Political Graveyard) http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF.html#BORN
Separate listings for selected politicians who were born, lived, or died in Suffolk County, then a listing by cemetery or memorial site.
Suffolk County, New York (Wikipedia; Answers.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County%2C_New_York
Contains links to its ten towns, incorporated and unincorporated villages (the latter, often colorfully misnamed "hamlets"). Includes, standard statistical and geographic data. Information on villages often includes famous or once-famous people who lived there, whether for some portion of their life, including summerers.
Clickable segments: To 1683. -- 1683-1783. -- 1783-1883. -- 1883-1914. -- Colonial Long Island, 1650-1783: An Overview. -- Early History of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Suffolk County Almshouse: A Finding Aid to the Records, 1871-1953 (Suffolk County. Office of the Clerk. Historic Documents Library) http://wotan.liu.edu/~mptakacs/almshousehome.html
Main clickable sections: Detailed Finding Aid. -- Records Description. -- Potter's Field Index. -- Contacts and Directions. -- Additonal Links. Includes a number of digital images of the almshouse, historic documents, a partial map of the potter's field. A useful finding aid for material otherwise not easy to locate.
Toxic Site Maps for SUFFOLK (Toxics Targeting, Inc. Environmental Reports) http://www.toxicstargeting.com/toxicmaps/suffolk/suffolk_maps.htm
Click on one of the alphabeticially-listed villages for a bit of a shock, or an occasional relatively pleasant surprise.
Early Rapid Transit in Brooklyn, 1878-1913, © 2001 Mark S. Feinman (The Author & NYCSubway.org) http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/earlyrapidtransitinbrooklyn.html
Interstate 495: Long Island Expressway: Historic Overview (NYCRoads.com) http://www.nycroads.com/roads/long-island/
Good, general summary of the development of what is perhaps, L.I.'s main East-West conduit
Long Island History: Planes, Trains, and Ships [a bibliography], © 2001 Linda Bova & Sachem Public Library (Sachem Public Library. Reference Department.) http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/LIplanestrainsships.htm
Long Island (Vanderbilt) Motor Parkway: Historic Overview (NYCRoads.com) http://www.nycroads.com/history/motor/
Reviews its creation, by the Vanderbilts to link two estates, the first macadamized highway in the U.S., its use for early automobile races, sponsored by the Vanderbilts, and development for public transportation.
Monorails Stay on Slow Track: Predictions from the Past that Haven't Come True...Yet (Princeton University) http://www.princeton.edu/~dimaggio/Technology%20history/Future%20shuck%20-%20hypes%20that%20didn't%20pay%20off.htm
Refers to the experimental Dunton-Boynton Bicycle Railroad.
The Roads of Metro New York (NYCRoads.com) http://www.nycroads.com/roads/
Covers the tri-state area (NY-NJ-CT), with a segment on Long Island, which is divided into Expressways, Parkways, Unbuilt Roads, and State and County Route Listings. Each mentions specific major roads, and has a clickable Historic Overview section.
Willie Vanderbuilt's [sic] Long Island Pike -- Overlooked as the First Parkway (TollRoadsNews.com) http://www.tollroadsnews.com/cgi-bin/a.cgi/WwfTqpUyEdiRW6r2jfFwDw
TWA Flight 800 (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800
TWA Flight 800 International Memorial (TWA Seniors Club) http://www.twaseniorsclub.org/memorialtwa800/twa800memorial.html
Stephen Decatur, by Tocarra Derrickson http://www.intercom.net/local/school/sdms/global/decatur.html
Soldiers for Liberty: African American Freedom Fighters (Long Island University. C.W. Post Campus. B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library. Wars) http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaffsfl.htm#1812
A chronological chart, by year, with headings for: Date, Place, Name, # [of times tried], sex, notes and sources [usually with complete citations, including page references].
Includes New York. A more northerly chronological list, by year, of trials and verdicts (classed by a code), drawn from the appendix of John Putnam Demos' Entertaining Satan. New York; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983: pp. 402-09.
Women's History Month -- March 2007: Selected Long Island & New York State Aspects, comp. & ed. by Mark Rothenberg (Central Reference, Suffolk Cooperative Library System & Patchogue Medford Library) http://www.pmlib.org/wmnshistmo2007.htm#a
[Ed. note: The title is a bit off. Mexico was boiling over Pershing's 1917 invasion of Mexico, to capture Pancho Villa. Germany's Foreign Office's decided to offer Mexico an alliance, to keep the U.S. preoccupied in its own hemisphere, should it enter WW I. The Germans sent the message, known as the Zimmerman Telegram, in code, via their Atlantic cable, which was to be relayed via wireless to Mexico. Unknown to the Germans, the message was intercepted and decoded, by the British, who had tapped the German cable, and had broken the German diplomatic code. The Telefunken wireless station in Sayville, L.I. was among the most powerful in the world, and was to forward the coded message to the German Embassy in Mexico City. Mexico was well aware of the likely consequences of getting into a full-blown war with the U.S., esp. while still internally divided, in the latter stages of its own civil war (The Revolution of 1910), & greatly weakened by years of internal strife. Mexico declined the Alliance. The U.S. was anxious, with the probability of a larger war on the horizon, to withdraw its troops from Mexico. Wilson had ordered Pershing, in chasing Villa, specifically not to provoke the troops of the U.S.-recognized government of Carranza, no easy task, esp. the deeper Pershing went into Mexico. The British gambled that releasing the text of the offer might provoke a U.S. decaration of war on Germany, making it worth Germany knowing that it's code had been broken. The gamble worked and the U.S. entered the war, left Mexico, and Pershing became commander of the U.S. Expeditionary forces in Europe.]
In Pursuit of Pancho Villa, 1916-1917, by Joe Griffith http://www.hsgng.org/pages/pancho.htm
The Telefunken / Sayville Wireless (Sayville.ccom) http://www.sayville.com/wireless.html
The Beach Patrol and Corsair Fleet, by Dennis L. Noble (U.S. Coast Guard) http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_beachpatrol.html
CVE-1 Long Island (GlobalSecurity.org Military) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cve-1.htm
The first U.S. Navy escort carrier, named after the Isle, was the harbinger of a fleet of light carriers that helped win the war in the Atlantic and Pacific, by carrying fewer eggs (i.e., critical aircraft and trained pilots) in one basket, dispersing and increasing the number of targets, and enabling greater flexibility in projection of airpower. Also includes links on the ship Long CVE-1 Long Island ship-specifications, ship-class, ship-list, plans & schematics (simple b&w birds-eye and side views). It also indicates pictures, though none were seen at that link. See also link below.
Eastern Sea Frontier (U Boat Archive) http://www.uboatarchive.net/ESF.htm
Floyd Bennett Field Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn (U.S. National Park Service. Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans) http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/120floyd/index.htm
German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II: Eastern Sea Frontier War Diary Account of German Agents Landing (U.S. Navy Department. Naval Historical Center) http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq114-3.htm
New York (U.S. Naval Activities, World War II, by State) http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/USN-Act/NY.html
Note that this brief directory includes upstate facilities and activities, as well as those on Long Island, and in New York City. Astoria, Baldwin, Bellmore, Bethpage, Brooklyn, College Point, East Moriches, Farmingdale, Fishers Island, Freeport, Garden City, Greenport, Huntington, Jamaica, Kings Point, Lake Montauk Harbor, Lido Beach, Long Island (generally), Long Island City, Mineola, Port Washington, Riverhead, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, and Travers Island all are mentioned within a L.I.-related context.
USS Long Island AVG-1 (later ACV-1 and CVE-1), Ó1996-2005 Paul R. Yarnall (NavSource.org) http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/001.htm
A photo archive, preceded by a succinct ship's history and specifications. See also the link above, on CVE-1.
Yaphank Historical Society (The Society) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/yaphank.htm
Includes a series of articles on aspects of Yaphank history, as well as clickable tours, announcements, related links, and directories, including one of current officers.
-- Camp Siegfried
The Mid-Island Mail, Published 1935-1941 (Longwood's Journey) http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/yaphank/bundmid.htm
Camp Siegfried related articles