History of Long Island
Author | : Benjamin Franklin Thompson |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Benjamin Franklin Thompson |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Richard Panchyk |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467136271 |
"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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Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Peter Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Nathaniel Scudder Prime |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Marilyn E. Weigold |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780814794005 |
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 | : Benjamin Franklin Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Benjamin Franklin Thompson |
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Natalie A. Naylor |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1614237352 |
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 | : Newsday |
Publisher | : Newsday Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781885134141 |
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.