Vertical files, ca. 1865-1989.

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Vertical files, ca. 1865-1989.

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Subject file of clippings, photographs, pamphlets, booklets, museum catalogs, maps, and other materials on the history of Port Jefferson and other communities on Long Island from New York City to Montauk Point. Subjects include the Bayles, Chambers, Davis, Mather and Strong families; the shipping industry and individual ships such as the whaler Horatio, schooner Martha E. Wallace, and the steamship Normandie; also antiques, atomic power and the nuclear plant at Shoreham, L.I., the Civil War, games, Long Island place names, storms, shipwrecks, tools, toys, whaling and witchcraft.

ca. 4 cubic ft.

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Port Jefferson Historical Society.

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John Richard Mather and his son John were shipbuilders in Port Jefferson. John R. Mather's house on Prospect Street in Port Jefferson (ca. 1840) is now operated as the Mather House Museum by the Port Jefferson Historical Society. From the description of Family papers, M, 1845-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155564259 The Dedio House was relocated and restored by the Port Jefferson Historical Society, 1974-1976, and now stands next to the much larger Mather House, which ...

Bayles family.

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Chambers family.

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Martha E. Wallace (Schooner)

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Normandie (Steamship)

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Strong family.

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Mather family.

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Davis family.

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Horatio (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles Grant, on voyage 7 Aug. 1877-24 Aug. 1881 to the Cape Verde, Cornell, Middle, French Rock, Vasquez, On the Line, Tonga, and Chatham whaling grounds; owner-agent: Taber, Gordon & Company; built at Port Jefferson, N.Y., 1877. From the description of Logbook, 1877 Aug. 7-1881 Aug. 24. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70970331 Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by C...