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January
17, 2003
- Longwood Junior High School Students kick off
Revolutionary War project. Using a variety of resources, we
have identified over 60 men from the Longwood Community, who were
patriots during the American Revolution. Sixty, 7th Grade
students have been assigned to research these men.
Suffolk County Clerk and former social studies teacher Mr.
Edward P. Romaine, helped kick off the project with an overview of
the county records available to help with the project. Mr.
Romaine gave a brief overview of Revolutionary War incidents that
occurred on Long Island.
Mrs. Sharon A. Pullen, Suffolk County Archivist, shows
students the types of records available. Mrs. Pullen has
been instrumental in helping to teach the students how to search
for wills and deeds.
Here are some of the names of the American Revolutionary
Veterans that are currently being researched.
American Revolutions
Biographies currently under construction by Longwood Junior High School
Students.
- Lt. Isaac Davis
- Gershom Brown
- Jacob Corwin
- Paul Hulse
- David Davis
- Daniel Overton
- William Phillips
- Brewster Terry
- Nathanial Overton
- Messenger Overton
- Elijah Davis
- Palmer Overton
- Elnathan Davis
- Thomas Aldrich
- Daniel Overton
- James Overton
- John Overton
- David Overton
- Gershum Hawkins
- Benjamin Overton
- Uriah Smith
- William Sexton
- Elisha Hammond
- Daniel Hammond
- William Swezy
- Daniel Swezy
- Christopher Swezy
- Steven Swezy
- Reeves Howell
- Thomas Bayles
- Zachariah Hawkins
January
7, 2003
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Major update!!
Can you do the Colonial Math?
This is the 1811 Math Workbook, of Middle Island resident Minerva
Hutchison. The book comes from the collection of the late
Davis Erhardt.
December 5, 2002
-
Major update!! Newspaper achieve added to
Yaphank pages featuring
newspaper stories dealing with the Bund.
November 18, 2002
- Update New Obituary:
- DR. WILLIAM S.
SMITH, BROOKLYN PHYSICIAN
November 17, 2002
- Update New Obituary:
- Gustave Neuss Sr.
November 11, 2002
- We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Veterans
that served the United States and especially those who came from
our community. We have actively tried to research all
Veterans that lived in our community in the time of war. If
you know of anyone who has served in either Korea or Vietnam and
lived in the Longwood Community when they enlisted, please
contact
us. As we are attempting to compile a database for these
years.
The German American
Bund, written by Mr. Gustave Neuss, detailing the
history of the German Bund Movement in Yaphank.
November 3, 2002
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THE GOLD
RUSH DIARY OF FRANK McCREARY part 2. This diary completes Mr.
McCreary's trip from California to New York. We would like
to give special thanks to Mrs. Grace Shaw for providing and transcribing
the diary. Thanks to
Brad Bjorndahl for typing the diary
for us.
October 31, 2002
- Update of five new obituaries.
Glover,
William - Yaphank farmer dies on March 13th.
Marchant, Ada -
Mrs. Marchant, widow of Justice of the
Peace Frederick Marchant dies on October 6th.
Rector, Alys F. - Wife of
Superintendent Rector, of the Camp Upton dies on September 10th.
Sekine, Hunter E. - Experimental
fruit grower from Yaphank dies on September 12th.
Rev.
Eugene F. Gray -
The Rev. Eugene F. Gray,
pastorate of the Middle Island Presbyterian dies on October 12th.
October 30, 2002
- Lost Battalion Update:
Without Regard for Losses or Flanks Whittlesey's "Lost Battalion
by LTC Taylor V. Beattie
October 24, 2002
- German Prisoners sent to Long Island
farms to help with the critical labor shortage in Suffolk County.
October 23, 2002
- Yaphank Cemetery has been added to
the cemetery page. Yaphank
Cemetery is the final cemetery to be added to our site.
It is located on the north side of Main Street in Yaphank.
October 22, 2002
- 1820 census in number order
added to
census page.
October 14, 2002
- 1820 census in alphabetical order added to
census page.
- During World War II civilian volunteers were used as spotters
to help record the flight path of all aircraft since radar was not
available. These spotters were to serve as early warning
device for German aircraft that may attack coastal cities on the
east coast.
Boy of 8 Qualifies as Army Plane Spotter, Keeping Two Watches
Weekly With Pals, 12 (December 14, 1942, New York Times).
- Yaphank's Justice of the Peace FREDERICK P.
MARSHANT dies June 11, 1935.
Obituaries
October 10, 2002
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The decade of the 1920's has several nicknames. It has been most
often called "The Roaring Twenties," due to the boom in business.
But the 1920's also saw a boom in membership for the Ku Klux Klan.
We invite you read Gus Neuss's account of the Ku Klux Klan visit to
Yaphank. Ku Klux Klan Visits
Yaphank
October 8, 2002
- Longwood's Journey has just added a new addition
to the site, "Stories
of the Streets". This new addition will get the story behind
the names of the streets. We start this new addition by adding a
story of Ashton Road, to the list of existing stories of Granny
Road and Whiskey Road.
We are looking for early photo's for our "Then and
Now, A Photo Journey" and would like to request if anyone has any
pictures of the Longwood community prior to the 1970's to please
contact us.
September 28, 2002 - Longwood's Journey has
recently been under construction. A new face has been added to the
site, as well as new navigation tools to allow quick and easy
access. This will be an ongoing project for the next several
months. We will be adding additional information to the site
weekly. Please check back.
Over the next several months, look forward to "Then and Now,
A Photo Journey" to be added to our site. Currently, we are
taking photographs of Longwood today and will be pairing these new
photo's with our old historic photo's. This will allow you
to locate where your favorite historic places are located within the district
today. If you have any old photos and would like
to share with us, please contact us by
email.
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