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Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
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State: School district consolidation would cut costs
john.hildebrand@newsday.com; melissa.mansfield@newsday.comDeclaring that the state's fiscal crisis demands painful decisions, a state tax-relief commission called yesterday for dozens of cost-cutting measures, including consolidation of all school districts with fewer than 1,000 students. Nineteen districts...Tags: Executive Branch, Moriches, David A. Paterson, Credit and Debt, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Quogue mansion featured in Martha Stewart book for sale
carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.comAny property with a tony name almost always hangs out at the tony end of the real estate market. A 101-year-old Greek revival mansion in Quogue known as Belle Meade is no exception. It just went on the market for $10.5 million. Just two years ago, it was...Tags: New York Times, Suffolk County (New York), Property, Family
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Music Instruction
Cheryl Blumenthal, East End Arts Council...and more CHERYL BLUMENTHAL 631-827-3732 www.blumenthalmusic1@aol.com EAST END ARTS COUNCIL 133 East Main St. Riverhead 631-727-0900 FAMILY MELODY CENTER 77 S. Ocean Ave. Patchogue 631-475-3210 KATHERINE...Tags: Westhampton, Music, Long Island
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Welcome
Miles of beautiful beaches, both on the ocean and on peaceful bays, are just the beginning of the area's bounty. While fishing, surfing and just plain sun bathing are marvelous, the inland attractions also beckon.
The area abounds with temptations for...Tags: Southampton (Suffolk, New York), The Hamptons, East Quogue, Westhampton, Melville
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Greater Westhampton
This practice soon spread to other parts of the Hamptons, and it was not long before tourism became the most important segment of the area's economy, replacing whaling, fishing and farming as the inhabitants' main source of income. The Greater...Tags: Economic Policy, Natural Resources, Westhampton, Manorville, Theater
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East Quogue
Settled in 1686, East Quogue was known as "Fourth Neck." In the mid-to-late 1700s, a few solitary farms could be found. The natural resources of the area (the salt marshes, the creeks, the bays and the fertile soil) had drawn the area's first settlers....Tags: Southampton (Suffolk, New York), Rivers, Shinnecock Bay, East Quogue, Bodies of Water
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Lodging Hotel, motel, bed and breakfast and resort accommodations are plentiful and easily accessible throughout the Hamptons. Over 166 lodging properties make over 4,400 guest rooms available on the East End for visitors. Many of these facilities are...
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More than a third of school budgets rejected
STAFF WRITER; This story was reported by Karla Schuster, Mitchell Freedman, Victor Ramos, Indrani Sen and Jennifer SmithFaced with near-record hikes in school spending, Long Island voters rejected more than a third of district budgets --the sharpest rebuke since the state went to a single school voting day eight years ago. Budgets went down all across the Island, in...Tags: Elections, East Rockaway, Bellerose, Island Park, West Babylon
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South Shore Bird Refuge Eyed
Staff WriterBirds, and the birders who watch them, may be getting a boost along the South Shore. From Inwood to Shinnecock, 21 state-owned tidal wetland sites in Nassau and Suffolk are to be grouped into a new "bird conservation area" under a proposal designed to...Tags: Moriches, Great South Bay, Natural Resources, Shirley, Westhampton
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Quogue
Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to...Tags: East Quogue, Jonathan Ogden, Long Island, Turning Point of Lehigh Valley, Inc.
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Local Historical Societies
Nassau | Suffolk | Queens Many historical societies maintain museums or historical sites. Those on the following list that do are noted by an asterisk (*). More information on these museums is included in the list of museums and sites in this section....Tags: Farmingdale, Republic Airport, Ronkonkoma, William Miller, Little Neck
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Hooded Merganser
Field Marks and Similar Species: The male Hooded Merganser is stunningly handsome, and is distinguished by the white "hood" on the back of the head that can be erected and lowered at will. It is black on the back, wings and head, white on the breast and...Tags: Rivers, New Jersey, Washington, Bodies of Water, Kansas
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