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Author : Benjamin Franklin Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Long Island written by Benjamin Franklin Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Panchyk
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467136271
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Long Island written by Richard Panchyk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long Island's history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to Earle Ovington, who carried the country's first airmail, the area has been known as the cradle of aviation. Millionaire William K. Vanderbilt's Long Island Motor Parkway, remnants of which 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 of the Muttontown Preserve. Captain William Kidd, pirate chaser turned pirate, is rumored to have buried treasure on the island. Richard Panchyk reveals the rapidly vanishing traces of Long Island's intriguing history"--Publisher description.
Author : Benjamin Franklin Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book History of Long Island written by Benjamin Franklin Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Ross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A History of Long Island written by Peter Ross and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Scudder Prime
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Long Island written by Nathaniel Scudder Prime and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book History of Long Island from Its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time written by Benjamin Franklin Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book The History of Long Island, from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Benjamin Franklin Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn E. Weigold
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814794005
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Long Island Sound written by Marilyn E. Weigold and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the shores of Connecticut and Long Island, New York, the Long Island Sound is one of the most picturesque places in North America. From the discovery of the Sound in 1614, to the adventures of Captain Kidd, to the sinking of the Lexington in the sound in 1840, the Long Island Sound also holds a unique place in American history. The Long Island Sound traces the growth of fishing and shipbuilding villages along the sound to the development of major industrial ports, resort towns, and suburban communities along the sound. Marilyn Weigold discusses the subsequent overcrowding and pollution that resulted from this prosperity and expansion. Originally published in 1974 as The American Mediterranean and long out of print, The Long Island Sound has been updated by the author with a new preface and final chapter describing the Sound in the twenty-first century. In this new edition, Weigold particularly focuses on environmental concerns, and describes more current milestones, like the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, who fought and won in 1995 to set aside 100,000 acres as NY State's first forest preserve; the continuous construction of the Long Island Expressway, with its forty-one miles of HOV lanes; the attempt made by several of Connecticut's coastal cities to reinvigorate urban redevelopment; and the Long Island Sound Study's investigation of toxic substances—both natural and man-made—which continue to contaminate the waterway. Through over 40 stunning photographs and many fascinating stories, The Long Island Sound tells the history of a vastly populated, but underdiscussed, part of America.
Author : Kristen J. Nyitray
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439667101
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Long Island Beaches written by Kristen J. Nyitray and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Long Island's beaches have provided sustenance, relaxation, and inspiration. The coastline is renowned for its sandy Atlantic Ocean surf beaches, calm bayfront beaches, and rugged north shore Long Island Sound beaches. First inhabited by Native Americans, the area was called Sewanhacky ("Isle of Shells") in reverence to the offerings received where the water met the land. Drawing from the archives of local libraries, historical societies, museums, and private collections, Long Island Beaches presents a curated selection of vintage postcards illustrating the diversity of Nassau and Suffolk Counties' beautiful shores. Rare photographs and maps accompany the postcards to provide historical context. Through extensive research, author Kristen J. Nyitray documents a facet of Long Island's social and cultural history and the lure of its picturesque beaches.
Author : Natalie A. Naylor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237352
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Women in Long Island's Past written by Natalie A. Naylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.
Author : Peter Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Long Island written by Peter Ross and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Newsday
Publisher : Newsday Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781885134141
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Long Island Our Story written by Newsday and published by Newsday Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story began hundreds of millions of years ago when continents collided. It evolved over centuries until the rising sea finally encircled a fish-shaped pile of sand that had been pushed together by a retreating glacier as tall as a skyscarper and as wide as a continent.
Author : Tom Andersen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300102871
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book This Fine Piece of Water written by Tom Andersen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Island Sound is not only the most heavily used estuary in North America, it is also one of the most beautiful waterways, with picturesque seascapes and landfalls. But centuries of pollution and other abuse have gradually been killing off its marine life and have pushed the Sound to the brink of disaster. This fascinating book traces the history of the Sound and its use as a resource from the time of contact between the Native Americans and Dutch traders through the suburban sprawl of recent decades--and tells how a group of scientists and citizens has been working to save the Sound from ruin. Tom Andersen begins by describing the dramatic events of the summer of 1987, when a condition called hypoxia (lack of dissolved oxygen in the water brought about by a combination of pollution and other factors) killed large numbers of fish and lobsters in the Sound. He discusses how scientists first documented and explained the development of hypoxia and how research and cleanup are now being carried out to restore the Sound. Interweaving current events, natural history, and human history, Andersen presents a cautionary tale of exploitation without concern for preservation.
Author : Richard Panchyk
Publisher : Brief History
ISBN 13 : 9781596292130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)
Download or read book A History of Westbury, Long Island written by Richard Panchyk and published by Brief History. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island community of Westbury was once a small town farming neighborhood . While Brooklyn and other boroughs mushroomed into urban giants, the population of peaceful Westbury hovered at less than one thousand. Then the Wall Street tycoons arrived--and everything changed. In this new book, author Richard Panchyk narrates the dramatic transformation of this once-agricultural hamlet, founded in 1670 by Quakers. Little more than a country town until the first two decades of the twentieth century, Westbury changed overnight as Manhattan's financial titans embarked on a frenzied pace of building and development--mansions, resorts, even a racetrack and an airport--catapulting the community into modern times. Westbury was the site of one of the country's first auto races, the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup. Its train stop witnessed the nation's first ever train-car collision. And in 1927, Charles Lindbergh bedded down in Westbury before taking off on his flight into history. Let Panchyk whisk you through the region's occasionally contentious, frequently dramatic, and always entertaining growth and development in A History of Westbury, Long Island.
Author : Peter Ross
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849650057
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A History of Long Island, Vol. 1 written by Peter Ross and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore which is to many the most delightful feature of local history. Long Island has played a most important part in the history of the State of New York and, through New York, in the annals of the Nation. It was one of the first places in the Colonies to give formal utterance to the doctrine that taxation without representation is unjust and should not be borne by men claiming to be free—the doctrine that gradually went deep into the hearts and consciences of men and led to discussion, opposition and war; to the declaration of independence, the achievement of liberty and the founding of a new nation. It took an active part in all that glorious movement, the most significant movement in modern history, and though handicapped by the merciless occupation of the British troops after the disaster of August, 1776, it continued to do what it could to help along the cause to which so many of its citizens had devoted their fortunes, their lives. This is volume one out of three, covering the general history of Long Island.
Author : Brad Kolodny
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143848724X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Jews of Long Island written by Brad Kolodny and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst to Sag Harbor. Including peddlers, farmers, and factory workers struggling to make a living, as well as successful merchants and even wealthy industrialists like the Guggenheims, Brad Kolodny spent six years researching how, when, and why Jewish families settled and thrived there. Archival material, including census records, newspaper accounts, never-before-published photos, and personal family histories illuminate Jewish life and experiences during these formative years. With over 4,400 names of people who lived in Nassau and Suffolk counties prior to the end of World War I, The Jews of Long Island is a fascinating history of those who laid the foundation for what has become the fourth largest Jewish community in the United States today.
Author : Ralph F. Brady
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235902
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Landmarks & Historic Sites of Long Island written by Ralph F. Brady and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it's like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old carousel to World War II camps and missile sites, Long Island native Ralph Brady reveals the secrets to what makes this little-big island so special with a tour of some of Nassau and Suffolk's most historic locations. Walt Whitman, William Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt and many others occupied remarkable homes around the island. Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight to France from what is now a shopping mall. For many years, a Long Island factory gave the world the game of Scrabble. Even the waters teem with history, with the modern submarine making its start off the coast. Come explore these and other settings from Long Island's past.
