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East Quogue's Josiah Foster House becomes historic landmark

Friday January 11, 2013 9:47 AM By Mitchell Freedman

Southampton Town Hall is at 116 Hampton Rd.

Photo credit: Erin Geismar

There’s so much history connected to the Josiah Foster House in East Quogue that even its owners — the sixth generation of the Downs family to live there — didn’t know it all until Southampton Town officials started looking into its background.

The town board voted 5-0 on Tuesday to designate the house at 556 Montauk Hwy. as a historic landmark, even taking the resolution out of order after...

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