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Category: Crazy Facts About Long Island
The Pequot Inn Has Been Part of Fishers Island for More Than a Century
The Pequot Inn on Fishers Island, photographed here by the Long Island Daily Press on March 18, 1970, had already been around for nearly 70 […]
Inside Ferguson’s Castle, Huntington’s Remarkable Lost Estate
For much of the 20th century, a large, unusual estate stood on a hillside overlooking Huntington Harbor. Known first as The Monastery and later as […]
Before Hallock State Park, This Long Island Sound Property Was a Massive Sand Mine
A Long Island Daily Press photograph taken on February 10, 1970, shows a sand-mining plant operated by Levon Properties Corporation along the Long Island Sound. […]
Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy Was Built on Chrysler Corporation Founder’s Gold Coast Estate
One of the oldest buildings at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point predates the Academy by more than 25 years. Wiley Hall, now […]
This Long Island High School Was Built Around a 1920s Gold Coast Mansion
Long Island Lutheran Middle & High School is best known today as a Brookville school, but the property has a much older identity. At the […]
Over 60 Crazy Facts About Long Island’s Gold Coast Mansions
Drive through Old Westbury, Roslyn, Sands Point, Oyster Bay, Huntington or Lloyd Neck today and much of the landscape appears to be well-established Long Island […]
This 1910 Plan Shows the Smith Point Bridge That Never Was
On August 28, 1910, The New York Times published an illustration of a bridge that was supposed to transform the Smith Point area. It was […]
How Mount Misery Became One of Long Island’s Strangest Legends
Long Island has plenty of places with ghost stories, but Mount Misery seems to have collected nearly every variety. For generations, this wooded corner of […]
The Mystery of Mary’s Grave Has Haunted Long Island for Generations
Long Island has a famous grave that nobody can reliably locate, belonging to a woman nobody can conclusively identify, who died in several completely incompatible […]