| Title | , Marty Van Lith, "Long Point," e-mail message from | |
| Short Title | Marty Van Lith, "Long Point," e-mail message from | |
| Source ID | S1110 | |
| Text | [The braced {} material was originally from Ron Kinsella. jd} Hello Ron, Just catching up with a week’s worth of e-mail. We were visiting my family in North Carolina. {I googled Long Point Brookhaven NY and found the attached article on Long Point from a 1905 article in The New York Times [6 Oct 1905].} I’m glad you sent this. I’ve seen it before but didn’t have a clue about what it meant. [This is how a verbal history was passed on by my father or Betty [Puleston].} {The Harrison's owned the land at 352 Beaver Dam and owned all the land between Newey Lane and Meadow Lane to the bay.} {Hugh H Harrison was a cement tycoon in the infancy of cement. That is why there are cement posts and a wall on Beaver Dam and on Meadow Lane there are cement buildings that even had metal and cement roofs.} {My grandfather and his sister worked for the Harrisons as did did my father. They also worked on George Washington estate. My grand father and grand mother lived in one of those house's now owned by the Pulestons.} {The depression wiped out the Harrison business and to my knowledge they lived here until they died and are buried in Yaphank with only the metal markers the funeral home supplied.} Wow! I didn’t know any of this. I didn’t know where your grandparents lived nor did I know anything about the Harrisons. Did your grandparents, or heirs, sell their land to the Wellington/Pulestons? And the Harrisons, or their estate, must have sold their land to the Baker family, who later called it Fire Place Farm. Now Dave & Mary Allison live in the house, albeit I understand that several buildings were joined together to make the present structure. Betty Puleston used to march through the old Phillips Dock Rd, a.k.a. Shell Road, once a year, much to the chagrin of Dave Allison, as required legally for right-of-ways. As you probably know, it starts just a little to the east of the cement wall and meanders down to the river. I’ve attached an old Hagstrum map of it. In Louise Forsstund’s 1902 book “Ship of Dreams” Shell Road was a main thoroughfare to the river (as shown on the attached atlases). {Charles O Wellington bought that same land except for the house at 352 Beaver Dam.} And your grandparents land? {The debate over Long Point somewhat existed when I was young and when I used to hunt ducks there in 58-62 the caretaker a Russell Murdock claimed Wertheim controlled the point. He never bothered me when I was there but if he did not know you he would persist that you were trespassing on Wertheim Land. Now the Point is gone. In my life time it went from a sandy point to almost the buoy to nothing. There used to be rocks there used for supports of a small summer bungalow?? The Kinsella "rumor" is that this bungalow broke loose from a storm and was towed in by horse and team for a addition to their house.} I vaguely remember seeing Long Point when I was very young. It seems to have disappeared with either Hurricane Carol, Edna or Donna in the 50s. There are also monuments somewhere at the point that were placed there by either Woodhull or Clarence Tangier Smith (can’t remember) in the 1800s. When I was doing salinity testing there for the USF&WS several years ago I looked for them but didn’t see anything. {On some maps that I have seen Meadow Lane or the Shell road is called Phillips Dock Road. It used to show in the Yellow Book map for years. I called many times to request that they remove that name and call it Meadow Lane. This they did.} {This article probably explains why one of these roads was known as Phillips Dock Road. William Phillips owned it before Harrisons and that William Phillips would be my wifes great uncle.....O My I rambled on again!!} It would be nice to find out more about the Harrisons and Phillips families. Neither family is shown in the 1888 Wendelke map and there’s no trace of either family in the attached 1902 atlas. The 1915 atlas didn’t bother listing anyone along Beaver Dam Road. Somewhere I have the 1900 and 1910 census, I’ll take a look. I was under the impression that the Suffolk Club owned most of the land along the west side of the river, including the Pulestons and Michelsons, because somewhere I had once seen a map with Suffolk Club written in that area. Now you got me going, we have to look into this.. --Marty | |
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