Fire Island Union Free School District
Fire Island Union Free School District No. 14 is a school district headquartered in the Islip, New York, Town of Islip and on Fire Island, in New York (state), New York. The school is adjacent to but not in Ocean Beach, New York, Ocean Beach. The district includes, portions of Fire Island west of Ocean Beach Estates. This means, in addition to Ocean Beach: Saltaire, New York, Saltaire, Fire Island Beach, Great South Beach, Kismet Park, New York, Kismet Park, and Point-O'-Woods, New York, Point-O'-Woods. The district includes areas in the town (New York), towns of Babylon (town), New York, Babylon, Brookhaven (town), New York, Brookhaven, and Islip (town), New York, Islip. It includes Woodhull School, grades Kindergarten to Six. It is named after Richard Woodhull, a principal and teacher in the period 1935 to 1962. Within the community it is known as the "Fire Island School". Students who graduate from Woodhull can choose to go to either the Bay Shore School District or the Islip S ...
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Islip, New York
Islip ( ) is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the south shore of Long Island. The population was 335,543 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous city or town in the state. The Town of Islip also contains a smaller, unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place named Islip. History Matthias Nicoll relocated to New York from Islip, Northamptonshire, England, in 1664. His son, William Nicoll, became a royal patentee of the east end of what is now the Town of Islip, and his domain reached from East Islip to Bayport and included Sayville, West Sayville, Oakdale, Great River, Islip Terrace, Central Islip, Hauppauge, Holbrook, Bohemia, Brentwood, Holtsville and a portion of Ronkonkoma. All of this land was bought from Winne-quaheagh, Sachem (chief) of Connetquot in 1683. The yearly fee paid to Governor Thomas Dongan of New York was five bushels of quality winter wheat or 25 shillings. Other early land patentees were Andrew Gibb (Islip Haml ...
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