The Town of Southold is one of ten
towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County () is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York. It is mainly located on the eastern end of Long Island, but also includes several smaller islands. According to the 2020 United States census, the county's populatio ...
, United States. It is located in the northeastern tip of the county, on the
North Fork of
Long Island
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. The population was 23,732 at the 2020 census. The town also contains a
hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...
named
Southold, which was settled in 1640.
History
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Algonquian-speaking tribes, related to those in New England across Long Island Sound, lived in eastern Long Island before European colonization. The western portion of the island was occupied by bands of
Lenape
The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...
, whose language was also one of the
Algonquian languages
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.
In surrounding areas, the
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
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* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
colonists had established early settlements to the northwest: on the upper Hudson River was
Fort Orange
Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearb ...
, founded in 1615 (later renamed
Albany by the English); and New Amsterdam (later renamed
Manhattan
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) in 1625.
Lion Gardiner
Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island. He had been working in the Netherlands and was hired to construct fortifications on the ...
established a manor on
Gardiners Island
Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the east end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline.
The isl ...
in
East Hampton in 1639. Just across from Long Island, the
Connecticut Colony
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, or Connecticut River Colony, was established in 1636. The
Puritan
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s established New Haven Colony separately in 1638, even though it was largely surrounded by Connecticut Colony.
New Haven Colony
The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in North America from 1638 to 1664 primarily in parts of what is now the state of Connecticut, but also with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
The history o ...
was a theocracy, governed only by church members.
English
Puritans
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from
New Haven Colony
The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in North America from 1638 to 1664 primarily in parts of what is now the state of Connecticut, but also with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
The history o ...
settled in Southold on October 21, 1640. They had purchased the land in the summer of 1640 from the group of Indians related to the
Pequot
The Pequot () are a Native American people of Connecticut. The modern Pequot are members of the federally recognized Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, four other state-recognized groups in Connecticut including the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, or th ...
of New England, who lived in the territory they called ''Corchaug'' (now
Cutchogue
Cutchogue ( ) is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States, on the North Fork (Long Island), North Fork of Long Island's East End (Long Isla ...
). Settlers spelled the Indian name of what became Southold as ''Yennicott''. In most histories Southold is reported as the first English settlement on
Long Island
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in the future
New York State
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. Under the leadership of the Reverend
John Youngs
John Youngs may refer to:
* John Youngs (minister) (–1672), English minister who founded Southold, New York
* John E. Youngs (1883–1970), American politician
* John William Theodore Youngs (1910–1970), American mathematician
See also
*Jo ...
, with Peter Hallock, the settlement consisted of the families of Barnabas Horton, John Budd, John Conklin, John Swazy, William Wells, John Tuthill, and Matthias Corwin.
In 1650, the
Treaty of Hartford established a boundary between Dutch and English claims roughly through Oyster Bay on the North Shore. The Dutch colony was the western part of Long Island, and the English dominated the east. The population of Southold at that point was about 180. The harbor at
Greenport, on the North Fork, became important in trade, fishing, and
whaling
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It was practiced as an organized industry ...
, because it rarely froze over. Settlers developed the interior land for agricultural purposes.
Both New Haven Colony and Connecticut Colony had sought to establish Southold as a
theocracy
Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deity, deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs.
Etymology
The word theocracy origina ...
. The New Haven Colony did not permit other churches to operate at all, while the Connecticut Colony allowed freedom of religion. New Haven supervised Southold until 1662, when New Haven towns began shifting their allegiance to the surrounding Connecticut Colony. By 1664, New Haven colonists all had decided to join Connecticut, and the New Haven colony ceased to exist. Southold was supervised by the
Connecticut Colony
The ''Connecticut Colony'' or ''Colony of Connecticut'', originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settl ...
until 1674.
When the Dutch took control of the
colony of New York
The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. As one of the Middle Colonies, New York achieved independence and worked with the others to found the Unit ...
in 1673, the English-settled eastern towns, including Southold, East Hampton, and Southampton, refused to submit; the Dutch attempted to force the matter by arms, and the colonists of the towns repelled them, with assistance from Connecticut. When New York was retaken by the English in 1674, these eastern towns preferred to stay part of Connecticut. Although Connecticut agreed, the government of
James, Duke of York
James VII and II (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and King of Ireland as James II, and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Re ...
forced the matter for them to be part of the Province of New York. Governor Sir
Edmund Andros
Sir Edmund Andros (6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714) was an English colonial administrator in British America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. At other times, Andros served ...
threatened to eliminate the residents' rights to land if they did not yield, which they did by 1676. The Duke of York had a grudge against Connecticut. New Haven had hidden three of the judges who sentenced his father
King Charles I to death in 1649.
The town called as its second minister Rev. Joshua Hobart, a
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
graduate from
Hingham, Massachusetts
Hingham ( ) is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on B ...
, and son of Rev. Peter Hobart. The latter was the founding minister of
Old Ship Church
The Old Ship Church (also known as the Old Ship Meetinghouse) is a Puritan church built in 1681 in Hingham, Massachusetts. It is the only surviving 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in America. Its congregation, gathered in 1635 and officiall ...
, the nation's oldest church in continuous use. Rev. Joshua Hobart was installed in 1674 and served until his death in 1717, when he was 88 years old. Rev. Hobart's brother Josiah was one of the earliest settlers and initial trustees of
East Hampton, Long Island, as well as High Sheriff of Suffolk County.
The name Southold is believed to be an
elision
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of
Southwold
Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the English North Sea coast in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk. It lies at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is a ...
, a coastal town in the corresponding
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
county of
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
. John Youngs, the minister who was one of the founders of the Town, was born and brought up in Southwold, England. Youngs was a member of St. Margaret's Church in nearby
Reydon
Reydon is a village and civil parish, north-west of Southwold and south-east of Wangford, in the East Suffolk district and the ceremonial county of Suffolk, England. Its population of 2,567 in 2001 including Easton Bavents eased up to 2,582 a ...
. Within the Town's limits is an area known as
Reydon Shores, perhaps a reference to the Reydon, England known by Youngs. The Town's name also may refer to a "holding" to the south
f New Haven
F, or f, is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ef'' (pronounced ), and the plural is ''efs''.
Hist ...
, from whence the original settlers hailed.
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In the meantime, the population of Southold grew from 180 in 1650 to 880 by 1698.
In the late 19th century, the
Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road , often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk Co ...
extended its line on the North Shore to Greenport. This enabled summer vacationers to travel to the destination by train. Due to the light on the North Fork from water on both sides, the area attracted many artists, including
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design. ...
.
The area was agricultural, and long dominated by for potato farming. In the late 20th century, large areas of the North Fork were redeveloped as vineyards. This area of Long Island has developed a respectable wine industry. In November 1994, the village of
Greenport voted to
abolish its police department and contract with the
Southold Town Police for law enforcement.
Geography
The town is at the northeastern end of
Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ...
,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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* '' ...
on a
peninsula
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called the
North Fork and its extensions
Plum Island, and
Fishers Island
Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it i ...
. The
Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York to the south. From west to east, the sound stretches from the Eas ...
separates the town from
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
. The eastern end of the peninsula, near
Orient Point, is north of the
Town of Shelter Island, but the town is separated from the
South Fork of Long Island by the Great Peconic Bay and the Little Peconic Bay. The western end of the town is the border of the
Town of Riverhead. It is twenty-one miles from Orient Point to the border with Riverhead.
Robins Island
Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suff ...
, a protected open space in Great Peconic Bay, is also part of the Town of Southold.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the town has a total area of 404.5 square miles (1,047.6 km
2), of which 53.7 square miles (139.1 km
2) is land and 350.8 square miles (908.5 km
2) (86%) is water. The town has approximately 163 linear miles of coastline.
Significant coastal fish and wildlife habitats within the Town of Southold, include: the Mattituck Inlet Wetlands and Beaches, Fishers Island Beaches, Pine Islands and Shallows, the Goldsmith Inlet and Beach, Pipes Cove Creek and Moores Drain, the Dumpling Islands and Flat Hammock.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 20,599 people, 8,461 households, and 5,804 families residing in the town. The
population density
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was 383.5 people per square mile (148.1/km
2). There were 13,769 housing units at an average density of 256.3 per square mile (99.0/km
2). The racial makeup of the town was 93.53%
White
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, 2.91%
Black
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or
African American
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, 0.07%
Native American, 0.45%
Asian
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** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 0.07%
Pacific Islander
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, 1.51% from
other races
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* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
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* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 1.47% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 4.77% of the population.
There were 8,461 households, out of which 26.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.8% were
married couples
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living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.4% were non-families. 26.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.90.
In Southold town the population was spread out, with 21.5% under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 23.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $49,898, and the median income for a family was $61,108. Males had a median income of $46,334 versus $31,440 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the town was $27,619. About 4.1% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 7.2% of those under age 18 and 5.4% of those age 65 or over.
Communities and locations
Villages (incorporated)
*
Greenport, near the easternmost tip of the mainland.
Hamlets (unincorporated)
*
Cutchogue
Cutchogue ( ) is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States, on the North Fork (Long Island), North Fork of Long Island's East End (Long Isla ...
, in the western part of the town, originally a farming village
*
East Marion, in the eastern part of the town
*
Fishers Island
Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it i ...
, a hamlet located on
Fishers Island
Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it i ...
*
Laurel
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* Lauraceae, the laurel family
* Laurel (plant), including a list of trees and plants known as laurel
People
* Laurel (given name), people with the given name
* Laurel (surname), people with the surname
* Laurel (mus ...
, by the western town line
*
Mattituck, in the western part of the town, settled in 1680
*
New Suffolk
New Suffolk is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The CDP's population was 349 at the 2010 census.
History
The submarine ...
, in the southwest part of the town
*
Orient
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, the eastern tip of the mainland
*
Peconic, in the central part of the town, southwest of Southold village
*
Southold, the hamlet of Southold, settled in 1640.
Other census designated places (CDPs)
*
Greenport West
Other communities
* ''Arshamomaque'', between Greenport and Southold village
* ''Bay Haven'', on Little Peconic Bay
* ''Bay View'', on Great Hog Neck
* ''Beixedon Estates'', a private community east of Southold village
* ''Cedar Beach'' on Great Hog Neck, southeast of Bay View
* ''Cove, The''
* ''Cutchogue Station'', north of Cutchogue
* ''Fleet's Neck'', South of Cutchogue
* ''Founder's Landing'', the historic center of Southold Village
* ''East Cutchogue'', located east of Cutchogue
* ''Eastwind Shores''
* ''Laughing Water'', near Great Hog Neck
* ''Nassau Farms''
* ''Nassau Point'', on Little Hog Neck
* ''Oregon'', along the vicinity of Oregon Road between Mattituck and Peconic
* ''Orient Point'', at the eastern tip of the mainland
* ''Reydon Shores'', on Great Hog Neck (named after
Reydon
Reydon is a village and civil parish, north-west of Southwold and south-east of Wangford, in the East Suffolk district and the ceremonial county of Suffolk, England. Its population of 2,567 in 2001 including Easton Bavents eased up to 2,582 a ...
in
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
, England the birthplace of the wife of the Rev. John Youngs).
* ''Stirling'', north of Greenport
* ''Terry Waters'' on Little Peconic Bay
* ''Waterville'', north of Matttituck
Government and politics
Islands
*
Fishers Island
Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it i ...
, in the eastern end of Long Island Sound
*
Great Gull Island
Great Gull Island is a island separating the Long Island and Block Island sounds, located approximately southwest of Little Gull Island. Both islands are located in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, and lie roughly midway be ...
, (uninhabited) located east of Plum Island and west of Fisher's Island
*
Little Gull Island
Little Gull Island Light is a lighthouse on Little Gull Island, a small island in Long Island Sound, located approximately northeast of Great Gull Island. Both islands are located in the Town of Southold, in Suffolk County, New York, and lie ...
, (uninhabited) located east of Great Gull Island
*
Plum Island, a restricted research facility east of Orient Point
*
Robins Island
Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suff ...
, in the Great Peconic Bay
Geographic features
* ''Great Hog Neck'', a peninsula into Little Peconic Bay
* ''Little Hog Neck'', a peninsula into Peconic Bay
* ''Long Beach Bay'', a bay near Orient
* ''Orient Harbor'', a bay in the eastern part of the town
* ''Orient Point'', the easternmost tip of the mainland of the north fork of Long Island
State parks
*
Hallock State Park Preserve
Hallock State Park Preserve (formerly Jamesport State Park) is a state park and nature preserve located in the towns of Riverhead and Southold in Suffolk County, New York. The park is situated on Long Island's north shore, with nearly of b ...
*
Orient Beach State Park, a
state park
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on Orient Point
Culture
Southold Town, along with the rest of the
East End
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, has a very rich cultural history. A handful of world-renowned artists have lived in the town including;
Douglas Moore
Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10, 1893 – July 25, 1969) was an American composer, songwriter, organist, pianist, conductor, educator, actor, and author. A composer who mainly wrote works with an American subject, his music is generally charact ...
,
Robert Berks
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, and
Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among t ...
.
[URL=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/walt-whitman-the-long-islander-bicentennial-of-his-birth-1.30762823, accessndate=April 13, 2013] Throughout the town there's countless art galleries and studios ranging all mediums of artistic expression. The town also has a rich community of musicians. Local music venue and restaurant, The Green Hill Kitchen, has seen performances from modern jazz greats such as
Tommy Campbell (musician)
Thomas W. Campbell (born February 14, 1957, Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz drummer.
Campbell's uncle is Jimmy Smith; Campbell played with him as a teenager and subsequently. He was a student at Berklee College of Music from 197 ...
,
Gil Goldstein
Gil Goldstein (born November 6, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz pianist and accordionist. He has won 5 Grammy Awards and he was nominated 8 time
Biography
He began studying accordion at age 5 after noticing it in The Lawrence We ...
,
Alex Sipiagin
Alex Sipiagin (born June 11, 1967) is a Russian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
Biography
Sipiagin was born on June 11, 1967. He moved from Russia to the U.S. in 1990. His first major job in the U.S. was with the Gil Evans Band. He has pl ...
, and
Morris Goldberg
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Biography
Born in Cape Town, Goldberg grew up in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town. He left ...
.
Transportation
Railroads
*The
Long Island Rail Road
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's
Main Line
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Transportation
Railway
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is the sole line within the Town of Southold. Passengers can go to
New York City
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via
Mattituck,
Southold and
Greenport Stations. The line is also used by the
Railroad Museum of Long Island
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.
Bus service
* The Town of Southold is served primarily by
Suffolk County Transit
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bus routes, although
Hampton Jitney
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*Hampton, Victoria
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*Hampton, New Brunswick
* H ...
buses are available for trips to
New York City
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.
Major roads
*
New York State Route 25
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is the main west–east route in the Town of Southold, and as such is almost entirely named "Main Road." Two truck routes of NY 25 also exist.
*
New York State Route 114
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enters and exits the Village of Greenport via the ferry to Shelter Island
*
County Route 48 (Suffolk County, New York)
County Route 48 (CR 48) is a major east–west county road on the North Fork of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs for from Sound Avenue in Mattituck to New York State Route 25 (NY 25) jus ...
is a major west–east county road between Mattituck and north of Greenport. The NYSDOT once planned to upgrade the road into part of the
Long Island Expressway
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* Long, characteristic of something of great length
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.
*Sound Avenue was a former segment of
New York State Route 25A
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, which is unmarked, but still serves as an important thoroughfare from Wading River along the north shore into Mattituck.
Airports
*
Mattituck Airport
* Charles Rose Airport
Ferries
*
Cross Sound Ferry
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The service is privately owned and operated by Cross Sound Ferry Services, headqu ...
Orient to
New London, Connecticut
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*
North Ferry,
Greenport to
Shelter Island
See also
*
*
Southold Free Library
References
External links
Town of SoutholdWhitaker, Epher. ''History of Southold, L.I.: Its First Century''(available from HathiTrust)
North Fork- Southold Town Visitors Guide
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