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Beginnings: Sorting out the early years of these old Riverhead hamlets is rather tricky. Consider this passage, taken from a history published in the 1960s: "The name Aquebogue was first applied to the entire area of the Aquebogue purchase. Later, it was attached to the ancient village now called Jamesport. After the development of another settlement a few miles to the west, the new community was called Upper Aquebogue, and the older one was called Lower, or Old, Aquebogue. The original Jamesport was not laid out until 1833 on the Bay. By a curious shift of names, Jamesport became South Jamesport, Lower Aquebogue became Jamesport, and Upper Aquebogue acquired for all time thereafter the anci...
Beginnings: Sorting out the early years of these old Riverhead hamlets is rather tricky. Consider this passage, taken from a history published in the 1960s: "The name Aquebogue was first applied to the entire area of the Aquebogue purchase. Later, it was attached to the ancient village now called Jamesport. After the development of another settlement a few miles to the west, the new community was called Upper Aquebogue, and the older one was called Lower, or Old, Aquebogue. The original Jamesport was not laid out until 1833 on the Bay. By a curious shift of names, Jamesport became South Jamesport, Lower Aquebogue became Jamesport, and Upper Aquebogue acquired for all time thereafter the ancient name of Aquebogue.''
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Restaurant Week dining spots
Nassau County Bayville Mill Creek Tavern, 516-628-2000 Pine Island Grill at The Crescent Beach Club, 516-628-3000 Walls Wharf, 516-628-9696 Bellmore Antonette's Restaurant, 516-221-3416 The Bayou, 516-785-9263 Jackson Landing, 516-785-5353 Bethpage...Tags: Bethpage, Cold Spring Harbor, Personal Service, Oakdale, Glen Head
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Too good for its own future?
Newsday Staff WriterThe land stretches from the strip shopping plazas of Riverhead to the bluffs of Orient Point, 100 square miles of fields and creeks shaped by glaciers and reshaped by Indians, then English settlers, then Irish and Polish immigrants. Now it's changing as...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Dodge, North Fork, Personal Service, Los Angeles
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Building a dream
Almost 45 years ago, Jeff Hallock was a kid riding his bike past a creaky old house on South Jamesport Avenue, thinking the same spooky thoughts his friends were thinking. "To all of us kids, it was a haunted house," Hallock says of the 19th century...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Manhattan (New York City), Hotels and Accommodations, Stephen King, North Fork
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WHERE TO EAT
Jamesport Country Kitchen Main Road, Jamesport 722-3537 Hellenic Snack Bar Main Road, East Marion 477-0138Tags: History, East Marion
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Jamesport
STAFF WRITERJamesport is a quaint hamlet situated at the west end of Long Island's tranquil North Fork. Farms, garden centers and antique shops, as well as the Jamesport Vineyard, dot Route 25 (Main Road), which runs through the hamlet to points farther east. The...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Labor Day, Vehicles, North Fork, Apartments
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South Jamesport
Beginnings: Sorting out the early years of these old Riverhead hamlets is rather tricky. Consider this passage, taken from a history published in the 1960s: ``The name Aquebogue was first applied to the entire area of the Aquebogue purchase. Later, it was...Tags: Peconic Bay, North Fork, Long Island
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