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Beginnings: Not until the early 1800s did a few farmhouses sprout up along dirt roads that would later form the main thoroughfares of Lindenhurst. Life passed quietly for the first generation of settlers, until Thomas Welwood arrived in the 1860s. A Brooklyn real estate agent, Welwood saw great potential in the pine brush clearings near the tracks of the new South Side railroad, which first rolled through the area in 1867. By 1869, Welwood had acquired so much land in the region that the new railroad station was christened Wellwood, a misspelling that persists to this day.
Beginnings: Not until the early 1800s did a few farmhouses sprout up along dirt roads that would later form the main thoroughfares of Lindenhurst. Life passed quietly for the first generation of settlers, until Thomas Welwood arrived in the 1860s. A Brooklyn real estate agent, Welwood saw great potential in the pine brush clearings near the tracks of the new South Side railroad, which first rolled through the area in 1867. By 1869, Welwood had acquired so much land in the region that the new railroad station was christened Wellwood, a misspelling that persists to this day.
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FOOTBALL SCHEDULE | FINALS
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Coast Guard volunteer from East Islip killed in crash
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LONG ISLAND: A. Pancella, 70, civic leader
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2 GOP incumbents defeated in Southampton town races
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Fewer homes at risk for floods under new Suffolk maps
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LI ARTS: "Rent" at Adelphi
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Town board candidates squeezed for voter attention
mitchell.freedman@newsday.comSally Pope was trying to get the attention of the voters in Speonk. The Democratic candidate for Southampton Town Board stood at a railroad station in September with graphs and charts, condemning the town's Zoning Board of Appeals for ignoring the...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, John McCain, East Farmingdale, Southampton (Southampton, New York), Republican Party
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Bridal salons on Long Island
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June 16: Non-profit contracts, curbing guns, Payne and Obama
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