Long Island History

Long Island and the Sea : A From Breslau to Lindenhurst : Maritime History 1870 to 1923 by Bill Bleyer by Lindenhurst Historical Society For more than five centuries, the waterways The 1867 advent of the South Side Railroad surrounding Long Island have profoundly provided the transportation infrastucture shaped its history. Familiar subjects of for a new Long Island community conceived lighthouses, shipwrecks and whaling are by Irish Immigrant Thomas Welwood and found alongside oft-forgotten history such Prussian immigrant Charles Schleier. as Pan-American flying boats landing in Specifically marketed to German immigrants, the city of Manhasset Bay in the early days of transatlantic flight. From Breslau was dedicated in1870. Welwood and Schleier the British blockade and skirmishes during the American encouraged business and manufacturing growth, providing Revolution to the sinking of merchant vessels by Germany in local employment and economic stability. World War II, the sea brought wars to these shores. Gold Coast millionaires commuted in high-speed yachts to Manhattan The manor : three centuries at offices as the island's wealth grew. Historian Bill Bleyer reveals a slave plantation on Long Long Island's nautical bonds from the Native Americans to current efforts to preserve the region's maritime heritage. Island by Mac K Griswold Documents the rich history of Long Island's Forgotten tales of Long Island centuries-old Sylvester Manor and its ownership by 11 generations of the same by Richard Panchyk family, drawing on years of research and A compilation, culled from newspapers, archaeological findings to explore how the books and historical records, of true stories property also reflects lesser-known practices of Northern from Long Island's history. Who knew that slavery. By the award-winning author of Washington's Gardens Plum Island was bought with a barrel of at Mount Vernon. biscuits and a few fishhooks? Or that an Oyster Bay woman accused of being a witch was instead found guilty of being a Quaker? Little-known tales A day like any other : the of snake-eyed horses, naked ghosts, swamp serpents and cats great Hamptons hurricane of riding horses offer a fresh look at Long Island's past. 1938 : a novel by Genie Chipps Long Island Aerials Through A fictionalized account of the Great Time Hamptons Hurricane of 1938 explores how by Richard Panchyk the storm affected the quiet seaside villages of the East End of Long Island Long Island Aerials Through Time offers a treasure trove of never-before-seen highly detailed aerial photographs of Brooklyn, The Great Hurricane, 1938 Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties by Cherie Burns dating between the mid-1920s and 1940, The author introduces readers to one of the taken by military aviators stationed at Mitchel Field in East worst natural disasters in the nation's Garden City. These stunning images depict a Long Island that history--the 1938 Hurricane that struck the is in most places vastly different from what we see today, coast of New England at 186 miles per hour predating modern suburbia and the construction of today's causing devastation throughout the region-- infrastructure. From Coney Island to Montauk, the book offers and the personal stories of survivors of the glimpses of a bygone era of farms and Gold Coast estates, and catastrophe. captures amazing scenes such as the 1939-40 World's Fair, a newly built Jones Beach, the rollercoasters of the Rockaways, and the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race. Long Island History Long Island Italian Americans Lost British forts of Long : history, heritage and Island tradition by David M. Griffin by Salvatore John LaGumina When the Revolutionary War broke out and "A history of Italians and Italian American New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces culture on Long Island". of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts along the length of Long Island to defend the New York area and create a front to Patriot forces across the Historic Crimes of Long Island Sound in Connecticut. Fort Franklin on Lloyd's Neck became a : Misdeeds from the 1600s to refugee camp for Loyalists and saw frequent rebel attacks. In the 1950s Huntington, a sacred burial ground was desecrated, and Fort Golgotha was erected in its place, using tombstones as baking by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky hearths. In Setauket along the northern shore, the Beyond the idyllic countryside and Presbyterian church was commandeered and made the suburban communities of Long Island lies a central fortified structure of the town. murky history of murder and mayhem. A Victorian romance went awry in Huntington when wealthy farmer Charles Kelsey was Hidden history of Long Island tarred, feathered and murdered in 1872. Thirty-five years by Richard Panchyk before the famous witch trials of Salem, East Hampton had its Long Island's history is filled with own Puritan hysteria among charges of witchcraft. The 1937 fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and kidnapping of wealthy heiress Alice Parsons shook the quiet fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, town of Stony Brook and remains a mystery to this day. Award- the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to winning author and historian Kerriann Flanagan Brosky Earle Ovington, who carried the country's uncovers some of the most ghastly and fascinating historical first airmail, the area has been known as the crimes committed on Long Island. cradle of aviation. Millionaire William K. Vanderbilt's Long Island Motor Parkway, remnants of which Murder on Long Island : A still remain, was the nation's first highway. The desolate ruins of an exiled Albanian king's estate lie in the midst of the woods Nineteenth-century Tale of of the Muttontown Preserve. Captain William Kidd, pirate Tragedy & Revenge chaser turned pirate, is rumored to have buried treasure on by Geoffrey K. Fleming the island. Richard Panchyk reveals the rapidly vanishing In the mid-19th century, James Wickham traces of Long Island's intriguing history. was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. In 1854, Wickham Historic haunts of Long Island got into an argument with one of his : ghosts and legends from the workers, Nicholas Behan, after Behan harassed another employee who refused to marry him. Several Gold Coast to Montauk Point days after Behan's dismissal, he crept back into the house in by Kerriann Flanagan Brosky the dead of night. With an axe, he butchered Wickham and his Take a ghostly journey through Long Islands wife, Frances, and fled to a nearby swamp. Behan was history, from Native American legends and captured, tried, convicted and, on December 15, became one beyond. Ghosts lurk at the Execution Rocks of the last people to be hanged in Suffolk County. Lighthouse, where Revolutionary War Patriots were brutally tortured and killed by the British during Long Island and the woman the Battle of Long Island. Long Islands history is unearthed and preserved through its ghost stories and spirits that have suffrage movement made their presence known. Through extensive research, by Antonia Petrash interviews and investigations, award-winning author and "A history of the suffrage movement and its historian Kerriann Flanagan Brosky, alongside medium and important activists on Long Island." paranormal investigator Joe Giaquinto, uncovers Long Islands eerie history.

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