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| Author | : Ralph F. Brady |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1614235902 |
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.
| Author | : Benjamin Franklin Thompson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 1839 |
| Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Joe Czachowski |
| Publisher | : Turner |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Historic buildings |
| ISBN | : 9781596524989 |
The largest island in the continental United States, Long Island comprises Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. With a rich history that has included American Indian tribes such as the Massapequa, Shinnecock, and Quogue, among others; colonists from England and the Netherlands; and immigrants who arrived by way of Ellis Island; Long Island thrives today on its wealth of industry, agriculture, natural beauty, and the contributions of its nearly eight million residents. Those very attributes are showcased in this volume, Historic Photos of Long Island. From the lighthouse at Montauk, to the growth of the Long Island Rail Road, to the factories of Long Island City, the breadth, contrasts, and vitality of the Island through a century of its life shine forth in the black-and-white images collected here. Windmills and tide mills, potatoes and oysters, aviators and fishermen--all are a part of the Island's history, and all are represented vividly among the nearly 200 images seen in Historic Photos of Long Island.
| Author | : Christopher M. Collora |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2013-04-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 143964313X |
In contrast to and predating Long Island's famous Gold Coast (the North Shore), communities along the Great South Bay were home to hundreds of less publicized, yet equally impressive, mansions and historic houses These homes were once owned by prominent captains of industry, popular entertainment figures, and movers and shakers of the day, such as the Bourne, Cutting, Gardiner, Gulden, Gustivino, Guggenheim, Hollins, and Vanderbilt families. Long Island: Historic Houses of the South Shore explores the South Shore's famous resident personalities, including Schuyler Parsons, Fred Astaire, Anita Stewart, and Robert Pinkerton. The lifestyle of the South Shore is also portrayed, including activities like hunting and fishing as well as the famous beaches that served as tourist attractions.
| 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 | : Nathaniel Scudder Prime |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1845 |
| Genre | : Long Island (N.Y.) |
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| Author | : Stacy Mandel Kaplan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2022-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781772761696 |
Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? began in 2008 when two lifelong friends from Oceanside, New York started a Facebook group to share pictures and history of Long Island's iconic places, themes and landmarks. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? is now one of the largest New York history groups on Facebook with more than 142,000 members sharing pictures and information about Long Island's colourful past. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Hey Long Island... Do U Remember? offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a-kind place.
| Author | : Marisa L. Berman |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2015-06-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1625849818 |
When Long Island became a suburban paradise after World War II, ambitious entrepreneurs created dozens of amusement parks to help families unwind. The Nunley family built a park in Baldwin in 1939, and it was so successful that they opened Nunley's Happyland in Bethpage just a few years later. Westbury's Spaceland fascinated youngsters with dreams of becoming astronauts, and Frontier City in Amityville was heaven on earth to fans of the Wild West. Today, historic parks like Deno's Wonder Wheel Park in Coney Island and Adventureland in Farmingdale still delight children and remind parents of happy memories of their own. Local author Marisa Berman explores the decades of fun and laughter from Long Island's historic amusement parks.
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| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738573854 |
In 1870, the communities of Astoria, Dutch Kills, Hunters Point, Ravenswood, and Blissville (near today's Sunnyside) merged to form a new municipality: Long Island City. This once independent city is undergoing an immense transformation as high rises replace single-family homes. It is the charm of a small town in a big city that many new residents have never seen.
| Author | : Brendan Gill |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 563 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780393038569 |
An illustrated treasury of the most magnificent Long Island mansions and a compendium of the architects who designed them.
