Suffolk County History

 

 

• Early History of Suffolk County, L.I., A Paper Read Before the Long Island Historical Society, November 16, 1865, by Hon. Henry Nicholl.  Brooklyn, [N.Y.]:  Printed for the Society, 1866  (Patchogue-Medford Library.   Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections) 
• Early Long Island Wills of Suffolk County, 1691-1703.  An Unabridged Copy of the Manuscript Known as "The Lester Will Book"; Being the Record of the Prerogative Court of the County of Suffolk, New York.  With Genealogical and Historical Notes, by William S. Pelletreau.  New York:  Francis P. Harper, 1897  (Cornell University.  Library.  New York State Historical Literature)
• Bi-centennial:  History of Suffolk County, Comprising the Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the Bi-Centennial of Suffolk County, N.Y., in Riverhead, November 15, 1883, ed. by Stephen A. Titus.  Babylon, N.Y.:  Budget Steam Print, 1885.   (Patchogue-Medford Library. Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections)
• Historic Sites  (Suffolk County.  Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation)
• Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County, and Its Towns, Villages, Hamlets, Scenery, Institutions and Important Enterprises; with a Historical Outline of Long Island, from Its First Settlement by Europeans, by Richard M. Bayles.  Port Jefferson, L.I. [N.Y.]:   The Author, 1874.  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections)
• History of Suffolk County New York, with Illustrations, Portraits and Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals, by Richard M. Bayles, et al. New York:  W.W. Munsell and Co., 1882 (Internet Archive)
• Matouac Research Center (Brooklyn Eagle Timeline)
• Hispanic Community to Levy Announcement Mixed (Patchogue Patch, March 28, 2011)
• Reflections on Suffolk County Pre-History-1914, comp. by Sherill Halsey Stevens (LI Genealogy.com)  
• Suffolk County, New York (Political Graveyard)
• Suffolk County, New York (Wikipedia; Answers.com)
• Suffolk County Culture and History (Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission)
• Suffolk County History NEW  (Suffolk County.  Executive)
• Climate of Fear:  Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y. (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Papers Relating to Suffolk County, 1671-1764, comp. and ed. by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections)
• Suffolk County [search results].  (NYS.  GIS Clearinghouse)
• Update:  Suffolk Hate Crimes Task Force Fears Report Compromised:  Chairman to Hold Press Conference at 11:30 AM, Tuesday, by Sara Walsh (Patchogue Patch.  Government, January 3, 2011)
• Legislator:  Levy Administration Edited Hate Crimes Report:  DuWayne Gregory Calls for Ethics Investigation into into County Executive's Interference, as Chief Deputy Denies Wrongdoing, by Sara Walsh (Patchogue Patch, January 4, 2011)

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             See also  "L.I. - Suffolk County" vertical file

• 250th Anniversary of Suffolk County, 1683-1933:  Celebration at Riverhead, New York, Saturday, November 4th, 1933 / General Committee
• 1948 Yearbook:  Pulished in Connection with the Annual Outing of the Suffolk County Republican Party / Suffolk County Republican Club 
• Brief History of Suffolk County / Christopher R. Vagts
• Guide to Local History Collections in Suffolk County [1984] / Suffolk County Library Association.  Reference and Adult Services Division
• Heritage:  Celebrating the 300th Birthday of a County Called Suffolk, June 19, 1983:  Sunday Newsday Special Section / Newsday, Inc.
• History of County and Regional Planning in Suffolk , 1930-1980 / David F. Newton
• History of Suffolk County, New York:  With Illustrations, Portraits and Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals / Suffolk County Tercentenary Commission
• Index to History of Suffolk County, New York:  With Illustrations, Portraits and Sketches of Prominent Familirs and Individuals / Suffolk County Historical Society
• List of Historic Events Commemorated at Suffolk County Tercentenary Bellringing Ceremony / Peter F. Cohalan, Suffolk County Executive
• Suffolk:  A Pictorial History / Christopher R. Vagts
• Suffolk County, A Place in Time:  A Photographic Exhibit Celebrating Suffolk's Tercentenary / Bruce Poli and Lois Pike
• Suffolk County Cultural Resources Inventory / Ellice B. Gonzalez, Edward S. Rutsch, et al.; Suffolk County Archaeological Association
• Suffolk County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1867-1951 / Frederick S. Lightfoot, Linda B. Martin, Bette S. Weidman 

African-American History

       See also  History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

                     Literary History

                     Slavery

• Civil War / Underground Railroad (Long Island Convention and Vistors' Bureau and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)
• Suffolk County Inter-Faith Anti-Bias Task Force (Suffolk County.  Office of Minority Affairs)
• From Slavery to Emancipation in Brookhaven Town / comp. and ed. by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.   Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• Office of Minority Affairs (Suffolk County)

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• Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother / James McBride [A Long Island Reads selection]
• Colored Girl From Long Island:  The Story of My Life / Sandi Brewster-walker
• Discovering the African American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860 / Grania Bolton Marcus
• A Forgotten People:  Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County / Grania Bolton Marcus
• Slavery in Rocky Point / James Higgins
• Understanding is the Key / Deborah La'Sassier

Agriculture & Horticulture

• Agricultural Heritage (Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau.  Suffolk County Culture and Heritage) 
• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County / The Extension
• Farmland Development Rights in Suffolk County, New York (Wikipedia)
• Flax Pond:  A Long Island Salt Marsh (SUNY at Stony Brook.  Earth Science Educational Resource Center. Geology of Long Island)
• History of the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center / Mark Bridgen, Joseph Sieczka, and William Sanok 
• Old Newspaper Article Tells of LI Potato in 1910 / Thomas R. Bayles
• Salt Hay Grass (University of Rhode Island) - Aside:  salt hay was a colonial staple for feeding and cattle and livestock in colonial L.I.
• Suffolk County Agricultural Stewardship Program (Long Island Farm Bureau)  

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• Facts About Suffolk County Agriculture / Cooperative Extension Association of Suffolk County

Archeology

        See also  Architecture

                      Indians

• Suffolk County In The Archaeological History of New York (New York State Museum Bulletin, Part 2, vols. 237-238 Se-Oc 1920; Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room Collections) 

• Archaeological Excavations at the Connetquot River Grist Mill,  Connetquot River State Park, Town [i.e., village] of Oakdale, Suffolk County, New York / Gordon J. Fine; N.Y.S.  Office of Parks and Recreation.  Division for Historic Preservation.  Bureau of Historic Sites
• Archaeology of Long Island / Suffolk County Archaerological Association; Nassau County Archaeological Committee 
• Coastal Archaeology Reader:  Selections from the New York State Archaeological Association Bulletin, 1954-1977 / repr. by Suffolk County Archaeological Association (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 2)
• Historical Archaeology of Long Island:  The Sites, Part 1 / Gaynell Stone and Donna Ottusch-Kianka, eds.; Suffolk County Archaeological Association; Nassau County Archaeological Committee  (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 7:1)
• Long Island, An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites / directed by John A. Gable, et al.; co-sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities and the Historic American Engineering Record
• Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, [v. 1] / ed. by Gaynell Stone and Donna Ottusch-Kianka; Suffolk County Archaeological Association
• Second Coastal Archaeology Reader:  1900 to the Present / ed. by James E. Truex; Suffolk County Archaeological Association  (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 5) 

• Long Island Chapter (American Institute of Architecture) - among other things, includes architectural award winning designs 
• Bayport, NY - Cement Sphinx (Roadside America.com)
• Big Duck, Flanders, NY, photos by Luke C. Cole (Luke's Roadside Attractions:  Mimetic Architecture)
• New York - Suffolk County (National Register of Historic Places)
• New York - Suffolk County - Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places)
• New York - Suffolk County - Vacant / Not in Use (National Register of Historic Places) - significant history at risk 

• AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island / American Institute of Architects.  Long Island Chapter and Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities
• Architecture of Suffolk County / Hecksher Museum
• Second Glance:  Architectural Details of Hallockville / Phoebe Tudor, ed. by Cynthia Mannetta

• Famous Artists (Long Island Convention and Visitors Beureau and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)

• Artists of Suffolk County, Parts 1-11 / Hecksher Museum

• Bayport Aerodrome Society  (The Society)
• Early History of the 106th Rescue Wing (Friends of the 106th Air Rescue Wing)
• Gabreski Airport History (Suffolk County Government, Long Island, New York)
• Suffolk County Air Force Base (ADC), by David Schoeck  (Cradle of Aviation Museum)  

• Army Lessons in English (Military Stories).  U.S.  Army.  Camp Upton.  Recruit Educational Center  (Internet Archive)
• Camp Upton (Longwood's Journey)
• Camp Upton:  U.S. Army Reception Center (Skylighters.org.  Long Island During World War II)
• Camp Upton Described and Photographed, by Roger Batchelder.  Boston:  Small, Maynard and Co., [ca. 1918]  (Internet Archive)
• Camp Upton in World War I  (Dave Keller; Trainsarefun.com)
• Camp Upton, LI, NY - Now Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)  (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Map of Camp Upton, ca. 1920 (Skylighters.org)
• U.S. Army.  Camp Upton.  Recruit Educational Center.  Principles, Plans and Purposes of the Educational Program.  Upton, NY:  The Center, 1920  (Internet Archive) 
• Ups and Downs of Camp Upton [cartoons], 1917 (Internet Archive) 
• 1917-1919 (Content dm Collection)      

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• Camp Upton Convalescent Hospital:  A History and Resume of Activities, September 26, 1944 to June 30, 1946 / Roger J. Cary; The Hospital
• Camp Upton in World War I / Thomas R. Bayles
• Index to Naturalization Records for Camp Upton, Suffolk County, NY / comp. by the Genealogy Federation of Long Island

• Camp Wickoff / Wyckoff on Montauk Point, Long Island (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Part 2, by Patrick McSherry (Spanish-American War Centennial Website)    

Cattle Ranching 

• Rich History - Rooted in Family, by Joan D. Dickinson (Deep Hollow Ranch:  America's Oldest Cattle Ranch)
• Theodore Roosevelt County Park  (Suffolk County.  Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation   

• Suffolk County Cemetery Records, New York (Internment.net)

• About Us (Response of Suffolk County, Inc.) 

• Historic Documents Library (Suffolk County.  Clerk's Office)
• Online Maps (Suffolk County.  Department of Planning) 
• Publications and Information  (Suffolk County.  Department of Planning)
• Suffolk County Drug Mapping  (Suffolk County.  Department of Information Technology)
• Suffolk County Military Records (New York Genealogy)

• Historical Changes in the Pine Barrens Central Suffolk County, New York / Frank E. Kurczewski and Hugh F. Boyle, Northeastern Naturalist, 7(2) 2000:  95-112. 
• New York State's Central Pine Barrens / Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission
• Suffolk County, N.Y.  Department of Environment and Energy
  • Suffolk County Water and Land Invasive Species Advistory Board
  • Suffolk County Wetlands Stewardship Program
• Suffolk County, N.Y.  Department of Health Services.  Comprehensive Water Resources Management Plan for Suffolk County:  Task 16:  Exclusion Zone Mapping, April 2010
• The Suffolk County Environmental Association Housed at Wereholme, Islip, Long Island, NY (Clyde's Guides and Other Stuff)

• Duck Farm Stidies  (Suffolk County.  Department of Planning) - includes several historic photos
• Suffolk's Farmland Preservation Program [video], interview with Lee Koppelman, Long Island History Journal (SUNY at Stony Brook.  Center for Global and Local History)
• Farmland Protection Program  (Suffolk County.  Department of Planning)

• Ancient Long Island Epitaphs from the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and East Hampton, New York, by Edwar Doubleday Harris.  Boston:  Press of David Clapp and Son, 1903 (Internet Archive)
• Early Long Island Wills of Suffolk County, 1691-1703:  An Unabridged Copy of the Manuscript of the Volume Known as "The Lester Will Book"; Being the Record of the Prerogative Court of the County of Suffolk, New York, with Genealogical and Historical Notes, by William S. Pelletreau (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• Suffolk County (Long Island) New York  (Kindred Trails Worldwide Genealogy Resources) 
• Suffolk County, New York (Political Graveyard) 
• Suffolk County Death Records (U.S. Social Security Administration, posted by RootsWeb.com) -- clickable alphabetically, by village
• Suffolk County Almshouse:  A Finding Aid to the Records, 1871-1953 (Suffolk County.  Office of the Clerk.  Historic Documents Library)
• Suffolk County History and Information (My New York Genealogy.com)
• Welcome to Suffolk County:  A NYGenWeb Project Page (Ancestry.com.  NY GenWeb)

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• 15th Census, Population, 1930.  New York [microfilm]
• Abstracts of Wills, Recorded at Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York / arranged by Elizabeth R. Van Buren
• Inhabitants of New York, 1774-1776 / [comp. by] Thomas B. Wilson
• Long Island / New York Genealogical Resources in the Celia M. Hastings Local History Room / ed. by Toni Raptis (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Reference and Adult Services Department)
• Marriages of Suffolk County, New York, Taken from the "Republican Watchman," a Newspaper Published at Greenport, New York, Years, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, v. 1 / copied and comp. by Gertrude A. Barber
• Wills of Suffolk County, Long Island (NY), Liber A, 1787-1798 / abstracted by George M. Easter
• Suffolk County Cemeteries / [comp. by Alice H. Meigs, Marjorie H. Leek, Ethel Metzger]
• Suffolk County, New York, Index of Wills to Dec. 31, 1850 / copied by Edwin Webb Wheat; from Suffolk County.  Surrogate's Office.  Index
• Tombstone Names in Suffolk County, New York / comp. and mapped by J. Lloyd; collected and pub. by M. Sones Lloyd

• Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y. (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site (National Historic Landmarks)
• Historic Markers - County: Suffolk (New York State Museum)
• New York - Suffolk (National Register of Historic Places)
• New York - Suffolk - Historic Districts (National Register of Historic Places)

• Suffolk County Historical Society (The Society)
• Suffolk Historical Societies (Suffolk County Clerk's Office.  Documents Library) - a handy directory 

• Benjamin Franklin's North Fork Milestones:  A Fascinating Heritage from 1755 / Robert P. Long
• Captain Thomas Terry's Company, New York Provincial Regiment  (Skyworld Design) - Note, under Timeline, a brief account of each year's militia call up from Suffolk County, NY
• French and Indian War (Longwood's Journey)

• "The Record of Suffolk County's Volunteers in the Civil War."  In  History of Suffolk County, New York, with Illustrations, Portraits, & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals.  New York:  W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882:  pp. 70-79.
• 11th Cavalry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 23rd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 102nd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company C
• 109th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company I
• 127th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E,G,H,I,K
• 131st Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company K
• 139th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies A,H,I
• 146th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• 155th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E
• 159th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company F
• 176th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• The Communities of New York and the Civil War - Suffolk County (New York State Military Museum & Veterans Research Center) - which villages are credited with raising which military units
• A Look at the Suffolk County Experience of the Civil War in Riverhead, by Pat Rogers (East Hampton Press & Southampton Press; 27 East Arts)
• Suffolk County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisvile College, maintained by Sue Greenhagen - Grand Army of the Republic (Union veterans') posts were scattered across the North and initially were a very powerful association and lobby.

• Brief History of the Unkechaug Inidan Nation, by Chief Harry Wallace  (Poosepatuck Smoke Shop)
• Federal Recognition Update (SinnecockNation.com)
• Judge:  Unkechaug Meets Tribal Sovereignty, Immunity Criteria, by Gale Courey Toensing (Indian Country Today, Oc 24, 2009)
• Montauk Indian Nation (MontaukTribe.org)
• Native American History (Long Island Convention and Visitors' Bureau and Sports Commission. Suffolk County Culture and History)
• Shinnecock-Museum.org (The Museum)
• Shinnecock Indian Nation (ShinnecockNation.com)
• Shinnecock Indian Nation:  An Ancient History and Culture (ShinnecockNation.com)
• Tribal History Overview (MontaukTribe.org)
• Tribal Links (MontaukTribe.org)
• Unkechaug Indian Nation (Facebook)

• History and Archaeology of the Montauk / Gaynell Stone, ed.; Suffolk County Archaeology Association (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v.3)
• Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians /ed. by Gaynell Stone Levine and Nancy Bonvillain; Suffolk County Archaeology Association (Readings in Long Island Archeology and Ethnohistory, v. 4)
• The Shinnecock Indians:  A Culture History / ed. by Gaynell Stone; Suffolk County Archaeology Association (Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory, v. 6)

• Alan and Helene Rosenberg Long Island Jewish Discovery Museum (Suffolk Y Community Center)
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island (Stony Brook, NY)
• National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Suffolk Y Community Center)
• Needles and Thread:  Jewish Life in Suffolk County / Helene Gerard 

• The KKK Flares Up on Long Island, by David Behrens (Newsday, July 11, 2009; Brookhaven / Southaven Hamlets)
• Ku Klux Klan Visits Yaphank, by Gus Neuss (Longwood's Journey) - contains links to articles on Klan activities around Suffolk in the early-mid 1920's 

• Lighthouses (Long Island Convention and Visitors' Bureau and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)

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• On Eagle's Beak:  A History of theMotauk Point Lighthouse / Henry Osmers
• Good Ground and Its Nautical History / Hellen M. Wetterau
• Living on the Edge:  Life at Montauk Point Lighthouse, 1930-1945 / Henry Osmers

 

 

• Jupiter Hammon (New York State Literary Tree.  Personal Detail)
• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet  (Lloyd Harbor Historical Society)
• Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and Young Man, by Walt Whitman (Specimen Days.  Prose Works, 1892; Bartleby.com)

• Mansions and Arboretums (Long Island Convention and Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission)

• Suffolk Maritime Folklife / [Judith Treistman]
• Whaling and Maritime (Long Island Convention and Visitors' Bureau and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)

• Famous Film Sites (Long Island Convention and Vistors Center and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)

• Suffolk Historic Newspapers, 1839-2007  (Suffolk Cooperative Library System, its Contributing Member Libraries and Allied Institutions) 
• Suffolk County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm and Paper at All NYS Locations (New York State Library.  New York State Newspapers) 

• Around the Forks:  A Collection of Published Articles / Edna Howell Yeager; comp. and ed. by Eileen Yeager Carmer
• Benjamin Franklin's North Fork Milestones:  A Fascinating Heritage from 1755 / Robert P. Long
• Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970):  And the Peconic Bay Impressionists / Terry Wallace
• Farms, Vineyards and Small Towns of the North Fork of Long Island / watercolors by Bob Miller
• Hotels and Inns of Long Island's North Fork / Geoffrey K. Fleming and Amy Kasuga Folk
• Long Island's North Fork / Maria Orlando Pietromonico
• North Fork Cemeteries / Clement Healy
• A Shared Aethetic:  Artists of Long Island's North Fork / Geoffrey K. Fleming, gen. ed.; Sara Evans, associate ed., et al.
• Story of North Fork Winemaking:  Historical Profiles and Wine Country Recipes / John Ross
• Up-Lot Reveries:  An Oral History of the North Fork / Maria Parsons

• Case Study:  Stopping a Serial Sniper (Criminal Profiling.com)
• Fallen Heroes (Suffolk County Police Memorial Fund)
• Hate Crimes Q and A (Suffolk County Police Department)
• Origin of the Sheriff (Suffolk County. Sheriff's Office)
• Police Issue Over 1,000 Summonses for Cell, Text Infractions:  The Special Traffic Enforcement Effort also Resulted in 78 Drivers' Arrests, by Judy Mottl  (Patchogue Patch, August 9, 2011)
• Suffolk County Police Department, New York (Wikipedia)
• Suffolk County Police Historical Society (The Society)
• Historical Society (Suffolk County Police Department)

• Historical Overview of the Suffolk County Sheriff and His Department / Eugene T. Dooley

• Suffolk County Postmasters of 1898 (Ancestry.com, hosted by RootsWeb)

• Tesla Wardenclyffe Project (Tesla Wardenclyffe Project, Inc.)
• Marconi Wireless Building, by Kevin Vagle (Long Island Ruins and Remnants)
• The Book of Radio - Radio Central Chapter (1922)  (EarlyRadioHistory.us)         

• Carman's River Watershed Protection and Management Plan / Carman's River Study Group
• Suffolk County Vector Control and Wetlands Management Long Term Plan and Environmental Impact Statement:  Task 3 Literature Review, Book 10, Part 1:  Freshwater Wetlands / Cashin Associates, P.C.; [prepared for] Suffolk County. Department of Public Works and Suffolk County.  Department of Health Services

• History of the Shinnecock Lodge [Order of the Arrow]  (Suffolk County Council # 404)

• The H.M.S. Culloden Shipwreck (Aqua Explorers, Inc., copyright Captain Dan Berg)
• Lexington Shipwreck in Long Island [Sound], New York, Jan. 13, 1840
• Long Island Shipwrecks (Long Island Genealogy.com)
• Long Island Sound Shipwreck Chart, by Captain Dan Berg (AquaExplorers.com)
• Long Island Shipwreck Chart [South Shore], by Capt. Dan Berg (AquaExplorers.com)
• Shipwreck Corner (Eco-Photo Explorers)

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• Dark Noon:  The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican / Tom Clavin
• H.M.S. Culloden / Frederick P. Schmitt and Donald E. Schmid
• Mayday!:  Shipwrecks, Tragedies and Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore / Van R. Field 
• Ship Ashore!:  A Record of Maritime Disasters Off Montauk and Eastern Long Island, 1640-1955 / Jeannette Edwards Rattray
• They Were All Strangers:  The Wreck of the John Milton at Montauk, New York / Henry Osmers
• Runner Aground:  A History of the Schooner William T. Bell / Adam M. Grohman
• U.S.S. San Diego, The Last Armored Cruiser / Gary Gentile
• Water and Ice:  The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico on the South Shore of Long Island / Arthur S. Mattson

• Jupiter Hammon:  America's First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet  (Lloyd Harbor Historical Society)
• The Provisioning Plantation:  Slavery as the Economic Engine, by Patricia Schillingburg (ShelterIsland.org)

• 101 Glimpses of the South Fork / Richard Panchyk
• A Cockeyed Guide to the Hamptons / Reynolds Dodson
• Hamptons Babylon:  Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera / Peter Fearon
• Hamptons Bohemia:  Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach / Helen A. Harrison and Constance Ayers Denne
• The Hamptons Dictionary:  The Essential Guide to Class Warfare /Miles Jaffe
• Hamptons Havens:  The Best of Hamptons Cottages and Gardens / eds. of Hamptons Cottages and Gardens
• Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930 / Gary Lawrance and Anne Surchin
• In the Hamptons:  My Fifty Years With Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionarires, and Celebrities / Dan Rattiner 
• The Lost Hamptons / Steven Petrow with Richard Barons
• Our Hampton Heritage / Dan's Papers
• Philistines at the Hedgerow:  Passion and Property in the Hamptons / Steven Gaines
• South Fork:  The Land and People of Eastern Long Island / Everett T. Rattray
• South Fork Cemeteries / Clement M. Healy
• South Fork Place Names:  Some Informal Long Island History / William Mulvihill
• Weekend Utopia:  Modern Living in the Hamptons / Alistair Gordon
• Who's Here:  The Heart of the Hamptons / Dan Rattiner

• Birth of the Electric Boat, by Edward C. Whitman (Undersea Warfare, Summer 2003.  John Holland:  Father of the Modern Submarine)

• History of the Long Island Railroad from Wading River to Northport / Louise McArn

• A Fleeting Moment in the History of Modern Times, by Verne Dyson (Brentwood Public Library) - 19th century Fourier-style community

• Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (The Museum)
• Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum (The Museum)

• Windmills (Long Island Convention and Visitors' Bureau and Sports Commission.  Suffolk County Culture and History)

• The Witchcraft Cases of Hall and Harrison, George Lincoln Burr, ed. (Hanover Historical Texts Project; drawn from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706.  New York:  C. Scribner’s Sons, 1914:  41-52)

Women's history

• 2008 Women's Hall of Fame Inductees  (Suffolk County, N.Y.  Office of Women's Services)
• 2007 Women's Hall of Fame Inductees  (Suffolk County, N.Y.  Office of Women's Services)
• Ida Sammis  (Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership) - A suffragist of Huntington, an able political organizer, and one of the earliest women elected to the NYS Legistature
• Ida Sammis  (Wikipedia)
• L.I.'s Shinnecock Tribe Considers Giving Women the Right to Vote, by Jonathan Rabinovitz  (Archives.  New York Times, December 26, 1992) 
• Women's Suffrage Tent Tour at Suffolk County Fair, Long Island, NY, 1914 (City University of New York.  LaGuardia and Wagner Archives @ flicker.com)

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• To Get the Vote:  Woman Suffrage Leaders in Suffolk County / Jane S. Gombieski and Mallory Leoniak
• Women's Work:  Native and African Americans of Long Island / Gaynell Stone, guest curator; Margaret Johnson, exhibit chair; Shirley VanDeroef, director; Westhampton Free Library