Local history vertical files, 1761-1989.

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Local history vertical files, 1761-1989.

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Deeds, letters, business records, scrapbooks, notebooks, pamphlets, posters, clippings, phonograph records, photographs, and other materials about the history of Middle Island and surrounding communities including Coram, Ridge, and Yaphank. The collection includes ca. 125 deeds and mortgages, 1761-1921; records of School Districts No. 16 and No. 17 in Middle Island, including registers, 1881, 1907-1908, 1918-1928 with gaps, a teacher's contract, 1911, school assessment roll, 1911, and annual trustee reports. Will of James Swezey, 1777, bills and receipts from Edward Pfeiffer's general store in Middle Island, ca. 1910-ca. 1930; photographs, articles, and clippings on Gordon Heights, a development for Afro-Americans; daybook labeled "Yaphank Mills" with entries for 1885-1887; and miscellaneous tax receipts, ballots, election returns, and other Town of Brookhaven records. Materials written or compiled by Thomas R. Bayles include letters and notes on historical topics, copies of newspaper articles by Bayles on local history, and notebooks with clippings, photographs, and letters on a variety of topics, including local authors and poets. Also, scrapbooks on whaling, railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; transcripts of cemetery inscriptions for Union Cemetery, Middle Island and Randall Cemetery, Ridge; and ration books and certificates from World War II.

ca. 7 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6881304

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Longwood Public Library (Middle Island, N.Y.). Thomas R. Bayles Local History Collection.

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Collecting area: History of Middle Island, Coram, Yaphank, and surrounding areas. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155536445 ...

Pfeiffer, Edward J.

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Radio corporation of America

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New York (State). Division for Historic Preservation

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Project undertaken was continuation of earlier Allentown survey begun on the local level; resumed under direction of N.Y. State Division for Historic Preservation to form part of evaluations by state and federal depts. of transportation in planning an arterial highway through the area. From the description of Allentown survey sheets and photographs, 1974. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34178278 ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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A federally funded research laboratory founded in 1947. Operated by Associated Universities, Inc., sponsored by nine northeastern universities under a contract with the United States Department of Energy, the Laboratory conducts research in high energy physics, basic energy sciences, nuclear energy, nuclear and medium energy physics and chemistry, and basic life sciences, including biology and medical use and effects of radiation, radioisotopes, and other nuclear tools. Environmental and energy ...

Swezey, James.

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Bayles, Thomas R.

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