origins and development


The first settlers in Oyster Bay in the 1650s. [Edit] During the 350 years after some major events in religious history, military and social conditions in the American colonies and the United States occurred there. Some of these events and people associated with them famous in the history walk.

Seven of the sites inscribed on the History Walk are also enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places.

The visit was the collaboration of the historian John Hammond, Oyster Bay Historical Society Director Thomas A. Kühhas designed and recording artist Claire Bellerjeau.

An audio commentary was created to accompany the cards hikers in the understanding of the importance of each site on the Walk to help interested. These tracks were originally released as a town meeting, but the name was changed history Oyster Bay Walk in 2008 when the certification by the American Heart Association as the first prime! Long walk to Iceland.

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1 Introduction

The walk begins at Baykery coffee with a general introduction to Oyster Bay and its history.

Although many people know as Oyster Bay home to Theodore Roosevelt, that tell of course, much more. Before the arrival of European settlers 350 years ago, the Matinecock Indians settled in the area of at least a thousand years. [Edit] Dutch and English merchants, fishermen and manufacturers later this center will be bustling maritime trade. One of the most important spies, George Washington lived, Robert Townsend is. The notorious pirate Captain Kidd visited for a short time, like Typhoid Mary.

2 Fleet Hall

AC Oyster Bay. 1890th Snouder’s Drug Store in the left foreground, the construction of Moore in the background right, and Hall of the fleet to be right in the foreground

Main article:. Fleet Hall

Fleet Hall is a building that once stood in Oyster Bay, New York. The building served as a meeting place for community and social changes in the time Theodore Roosevelt was a resident of Oyster Bay and served as governor of New York and later President of the United States. The building was used for events such as meetings, concerts, receptions, dances and dinners. It was also the site of the first moving image review Oyster Bay.

3 Moore’s Building

Moore’s Building

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After a fire, James Moore, a new branch built in 1901 with parts of a brick facade 1891st As the ground floor, which consisted of two large high-ceilinged upper floor for public meetings. It is in these stages that President Roosevelt was its Executive offices are located. William Loeb, Jr. and his staff from a company by the President, who did not need his personal attention. Direct hotlines to Sagamore Hill and the White House is connected. In 1903, the first “World Tour” was broadcast by cable from the building. Moore Construction U.S. National Historic Sites (NRHP) registered.

4 Oyster Bay Bank Building

Oyster Bay Bank Building

Main article: Oyster Bay Bank Building

This building was built in 1891 and was the first bank in town, it originally consisted of three floors and a basement. The directors of the Oyster Bay Bank leased the third floor to the Masons of Matinecock Lodge # 806, on the second floor of different doctors and lawyers, some of the basement for a swimming pool and a supply of tobacco and the first floor of the bank.

When Roosevelt was governor of New York in 1900, he rented rooms together on the second floor. In 1901 he became a member of Matinecock Lodge, and attended meetings on the third floor.

Originally the building was put back out on the sidewalk about ten feet with a large flight of stops to the entrance. But in 1927 the building was lowered and presented to the streets. Therefore, customers can directly enter the ground floor of the street. Following this 3-story addition was added on the back of the building. Recently, the construction of a major renovation was inside and out.

5 Derby-Hall Stand

Derby Hall Stand

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The music pavilion was once to be used by Roosevelt and others to make speeches. The original bandstand in 1930 and 1981 had been removed, took a replica of his office. It is to speak again publicly used. The original intention was to replica daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby to dedicate Roosevelt. However, death of his godson Leonard Wood Hall, New York Congressman and Oyster Bay native, shortly before the end. Since he was the main organizer of the reconstruction project, which was dedicated to him and Ethel was.

There are three cannons at the bandstand.

A opposite the town hall is a time of civil war Dahlgren gun, named after its inventor, the opposing-Admiral John A. Dahlgren. The basis of this gun is a distribution of pellets of metal from the wreck of the USS Maine recovered. The explosion caused that wreck that was instrumental in the decision to launch the Spanish-American War of 1898 (in which Roosevelt enthusiastically and won fame).

The cannon at the foot of the stairs is a pistol in 1861 civil war trophy of the USS RR Cuyler. The RR Cuyler was a steam ship, 1202 tons of wood by the Union Navy chartered to enforce a blockade on the west coast of Florida. This is a rifle weighs 30 pounds and 3510 pounds Parrott. It was presented in Oyster Bay from the Navy and presented by President Roosevelt in 1903.

6 U.S. Post Office

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Main article: U.S. Post Office (Oyster Bay, New York)

Although at least four grounds of the Oyster Bay Post Office, was the present building of the first to architectural design. New York architect William Bottomley designed this building as a mirror image of the town hall on the opposite side of the road. Construction was completed in 1936. Several artists were then commissioned to decorate the interior. The artist Ernest included Peixotto, who helped with his assistant several wall paintings in the history of Oyster Bay, and Leo lentelė, an Italian sculptor, terracotta panels on interior doors, a terracotta bust created from Theodore Roosevelt, and a stone tower on the ground the post office. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

7 Long Iceland Rail Road Station

Oyster Bay LIRR Station

Main article: Oyster Bay (LIRR station)

The Oyster Bay station is the terminus of this branch of the Long Iceland Railroad. The first station was built in 1889 and expanded in 1901 to accommodate as Roosevelt was elected President of the significant increase in customers to the hamlet. A new station was at the end of the twentieth century and built into the double-decker trains Place. The original building has been transformed into a railway museum Oyster Bay. This building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

8 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park

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Earth is Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park is on a salt marsh originally used for cattle. Theodore Roosevelt said of the future park, hope that we citizens of Oyster Bay may make here a breathing space for all residents of this district, especially the less fortunate. Just months after his death in 1919, the idea of a park has been agreed. In the next six years, land and work has started to build in a park acquired. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in May 1928, at the 5,000 people at a parade and a fly-by aircraft.

9 Oyster Bay on Long Iceland Railroad Turntable

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Main article: Oyster Bay Long Iceland Railroad Turntable

Oyster Bay is one of the few remaining stations from an original disk. It was built in 1902 to was a smaller, Oyster Bay, Locust Valley moved the time to replace the extension of the line. The deck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

10 Waterfront Center

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The area of the bank of the Waterfront Center uses on the site the yard Jakobson. During the Second World War, minesweepers, tugs, and mini-submarines produced for the U.S. Navy. Today, educational and recreational facilities occupy the site.

is an essential feature of educational institutions of the U.S. National Historic Landmark Christeen, which is docked at the Waterfront Centre. It is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States was planned in 1883. After 30 years, harvesting oysters, she was employed as a freighter and a yacht. In 1989 it was abandoned. Then in 1991 it was bought by a group of enthusiasts Oyster Bay and restored.

Oyster Bay produces up to 90% of oysters and mussels harvested 40% of the State of New York [Edit]. The Christeen serves as a floating classroom, students of all ages on the use of historic ships and the protection of the marine environment of the Oyster Bay on Long Iceland Sound and educate.

11 Captain Kidd in Oyster Bay

Main article: William Kidd

Although Richard Coote Earl of Mirth, had a role played in securing the Commission as a privateer, Kidd later he turned against Kidd and other pirates, writes that the people of Long Iceland were a people lawless and undisciplined “praying that had to protect” down under them. “

In a trial, his mutinous crew, who gathered in New York, Kidd avoid sailed 120 miles around the eastern tip of Long Iceland, then doubled back 90 miles along the Sound to Oyster Bay . narrows He felt it was a safe passage as the tip of trafficking between Iceland and Staten Brooklyn.

Kidd arrived in Oyster Bay, June 9, 1699, and anchored offshore. J. Weiss and Dr. Cooper helped to convey a message to Kidd woman in New York, without Kidd and location. This mystery was a waste, but it reveals for its location in Oyster Bay was, and a little more than a month later he was in Boston before returning to England for trial detention sent.

12th Wightman Memorial Baptist Church

Wrightman Memorial Baptist Church

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The first Baptist church began Oyster Bay meeting in 1700 and is the oldest Baptist church in upstate New York. feeks Premier Robert was appointed in 1724 he won the award as the first ordained minister at Oyster Bay of all faiths.

The original building was a plain frame structure, unpainted wooden board benches and a small bowl chair. During the Revolutionary War he was assigned to the British quarter of occupation forces, like many other churches in the village. The church grew steadily and became in 1806 a larger church built on the site.

was in 1882 this second building to move to the side and rotated 90 degrees to make way for the new church. In 1908 after several years of fundraising for the church is now the site is completed. The building was commissioned in 1806 then used as a school of the Baptist Church.

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Since the beginning of 1980 the North Shore Assembly of God has both the building of their home, and held in all its original details, including carved benches and other woodwork, pressed tin ceiling walls, a high-organ, stained glass and original.

13th Octagon Hotel


Hotel Octagon, v. 1910

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Luther Jackson built the house of Nassau in 1851 to be a meeting place and social policy, it later became the House of Nassau acres in 1884.. the hotel was for the judicial inquiry into the murder of three women used in the area, Lydia and Annie Maybee Wolves Hollow and Charlotte Aurelia Townsend of Oyster Bay.

In 1887 bought Philip and Mary Lavelle, the company

renamed Octagon Hotel died. When Phillip Maria took over the operation and made to numerous improvements, the modern pattern of miles. In 1889 they installed a central heating system, a comfortable year-round to guests delivered made and in 1890 it built a plant, the first electric lighting Oyster Bay. Find the new phone service via phone and Queens County Telegraph Company offered unsatisfactory, it had installed its own direct telephone in New York.


Roosevelt maintained a one-room office appears on the second floor of the hotel have Octagon 1899. Roosevelt was elected governor in 1898 and began serving the end of his term in January 1899 . The one-room office quickly proved too small and the staff moved to larger premises in nearby Oyster Bay Bank Building.

Mary Lavelle had the hotel in the Octagon 20th century out, but a new owner, Charles Davenport, saw its customer base decline as new hotels in the village part for the customer. Finally, after ten years he sold the property to Edward Fisher, in Oyster Bay, the first car Ford become traders. He for various companies in the automotive industry has been used.

It is the only octagonal building known in this part of Long Iceland and is perhaps the only hotel octagonal United States.

A proposal has emerged to restore the building to its original state. This is currently provided by the City of Oyster Bay. Community groups have displayed strong interest in this building to restore the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt to a sensitive and thoughtful manner expressed.

14th Print

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Main article: Oyster Bay Guardian

The Oyster Bay Guardian, a weekly newspaper was in 1899 Founded by Nelson Disbrow and in the next six years, it has produced from various rented premises. In 1905, the actions of a rival journalist Disbrow caused not able to continue to lease property in Oyster Bay. In response Disbrow bought his property on West Main Street and built in 1906 print, a brown shingled building, which still exists today. The Guardian of the building was in 1967 when the family sold it to Edwin Disbrow snow. The pressure stayed on as a print shop.

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The Guardian will continue to be issued on the property in various locations.

15th Fort Hill Cemetery Townsend

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Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe ordered his troops to a large orchard of apple trees that once flourished here kill and rebuild the ruins of an old fort that stood on this site. No one remains of the old fortress, but the hill has a special meaning for the family Townsend is one of the first cemeteries. John Townsend is the first person buried here in 1668 considered. His grave stone is worn and initialed the weather, but a bronze marker added, noting that immigration from England and his ownership of that property.

16th Raynham Hall Museum

Raynham Hall Museum

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housing has Raynham Hall Museum experienced several changes, additions and restorations, as it originally in 1738 as a four-room house with two rooms downstairs and two built on the floor. In 1740 moved a Quaker Samuel Kaufmann Townsend (a descendant of John Townsend, one of the first settlers of Oyster Bay) and his wife in a few years more and more families have an extension of the four rooms must be built on repression of the building into a Saltbox.

In 1851, the grandson of Samuel Solomon Townsend II, a three-storey tower has water in the garden, was the result of the first kitchen in the city with the execution [Edit] water. Solomon turned his attention to the conversion of the house in a Victorian villa in the 1870s.

passed in 1941, the building of the Daughters of the American Revolution, then in the City of Oyster Bay in 1947. The Council decided the building at the Saltbox structure of the middle of the eighteenth century and 1959 to restore, have been removed additions of Victoria, including bay windows, porte cochere, skylights and water tower.


The museum is in two parts. In front of the house are rooms furnished in the style of the 1770s (the period of the revolutionary war). The back of the house is in the style of the 1870s, showing the lifestyle, Solomon had brought the set home.

The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Museum of active and open to the public.

17 Seely House Wright /

Seely / Wright House

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This house, located directly across the street from the Raynham Hall Museum was built in 1830 for Ebeneezer Dr. Seely Seely married. Phebe Townsend, the youngest daughter of Samuel Townsend, when she was 45. After his death in 1841, married Seely and this union of her daughter married Joseph Wright, a local blacksmith.

Seely, in addition to his medical duties, the city has served as supervisor of Oyster Bay, school commissioner, inspector of schools and hosts numerous meetings public. There is a legend that Seely with Martin Van Buren was known, and he felt the Speaker of the House Seely.

Joseph Wright was a descendant of Peter Wright, a founder of the Oyster Bay is. Peter Wright and his three companions had the purchase of Indian land Matinecock negotiated in 1653.

The Wright family continued to occupy the Wright house (as it was then known) for many years.

18th Ludlam building

Ludlam building

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James Ludlam opened a dry goods store in 1836 further down the road. After the fire, which began as a carpenter and destroyed the adjacent shop Ludlam, he bought land and built the two story building, which is known as building Ludlam. The building is in the Greek Revival style. After the death of James, pass the business to his son, who later sold it to Roger Royce. Royce food business premises and in 1907 a fire broke out in the adjacent opera. The local fire department responded to the fire, pumping water from a nearby creek. The opera house, a private house and hat shop were destroyed, but saved the building Ludlam and the post with just scorching. Shortly after this fire-Royce, the building has to Kursman brothers who operated a dry goods store sells and clothing.

Kursman that came later from David Bernstein, and their activities implemented in the 1930s. Then April 12, 1932, fire struck again. This time, the building’s interior was gutted Ludlam, including all inventory and equipment, was only the walls. Then David Bernstein rebuilt the structure and operated a dry goods store called Dave popular for over thirty years. The brick building survives as one of the oldest commercial facades in the village, and more than a decade has been the home appliance world.

19th Snouders Drug Store

Snouders Drug Store

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There is no doubt as to when the first building was erected on this side, but there is some evidence, [citation needed] in the late 1600s. Snouders Drug Store, here since 1884, is the oldest continuously operated business in Oyster Bay. The pharmacy was by Miller Abel Conklin, who had been a pharmacist in New York but moved to the campaign of Oyster Bay was in 1880 on the advice of his doctor, who felt the fresh air to improve his health established. His first pharmacy in Oyster Bay was also on South Street, but the exact location is unknown. In 1884, he joined and led the business with the help of her stepson, Andrew Snouder.

Snouder had the clothing and footwear industry with his ailing father-in-law left. Unfortunately, health Conklin has not recovered and soon after the move, he died exercise so that Snouder to keep the name Conklin Drug Store.


Snouder 1887 installed the first telephone in Oyster Bay, which remained for years the only one in town. Until President Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill was not even a phone for several years and Snouder son, Arthur, carried out has messages to Roosevelt [Edit].

The phone service is one of the main reasons people gathered in May 1900 and Snouders of the store is for the exclusive use partitioned the service call. This was the standard used by Miss Ellen Ludlam remain open late into the night, was closed to the pharmacy. Later this year Snouder graduated second in his class from New York College of Pharmacy and officially changed its name to Snouders Drug Store.

The phone also brought many members of the press at the stands of Snouders Drug Store, with news of Theodore Roosevelt, as governor and president.

gathered after installing a soda fountain in 1889 young people in the store too. The Soda Fountain has become a center of social life of several generations of young people, [Edit] completely in the 1970s.

1990 to the road has its original color, which was an analysis of the color chip determines restored.


Hood AME Zion Church 20th

Hood AME Zion Church


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Hood The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has the distinction of being the oldest community Oyster Bay until now kept in its original church structure. The community was founded in 1848 by a group of African-American families. And in 1856 a wooden frame building was built in donated land to the Church of Edward Weekes. In 1937, after raising funds, the wooden church was raised on a brick facade.

The original name was the first African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. But later [when?] The municipality changed the name of Hood AME Zion Church in honor of an early bishop of Right Reverend James Walker Hood.

In the first fifty years of the Congregation of the financial difficulties and was its pastor for more than a few months time to pay. But in the year In 1937, she could pay their pastors, and the addition of electric lighting and brick facade. From 1937 to 1963, Rev. Moses T. Smith. Today, the town pastor Kenneth Nelson, who came to Hood AME Zion Church in 1981.

Earle-Wightman House 21st

Earle-Wightman House

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The house was for two 19th century Baptist minister, who has lived in it, in 1720 a small house built in one piece. In 1897 he was moved around the corner from its current location and expanded.

In 1966 the house was on the town of Oyster Bay for the use the Oyster Bay Historical Society, where. The company has its seat in the house and it works like a museum that interprets two-bedroom between 1740 and 1830.

The room 1740 implemented to illustrate how an 18th century merchant have lived. The hall could show of 1830, as Rev. Earle would entertain his guests in the lounge. The garden behind the house was in the 18th century by the North Country Garden Club restored. It features ornamental plantings of herbs used for medicinal purposes, as well as cooking and perfume.

The Historical Society also has a research library of books, manuscripts , photographs, maps and documents. The themes of the library include military history, maritime and religious Oyster Bay with a genealogy collection.

22nd St. Paul’s Methodist Church

Main article: St. Paul’s Methodist Church (Oyster Bay, New York)

The first group the Methodists in Oyster Bay, formed in 1812 and space at the Academy Oyster Bay for travel services, when ministers have visited. Then in 1858 the town erected a small church. In 1895, Joseph B. Wright, blacksmith, bought the building from them and continued his work for many years. The community had moved to St. Paul’s, where since 1891

In 1904 a new organ was installed worked . Half was paid by the wealthy philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In 1913 the community had grown substantially and create more space throughout the building by using a series of connectors has been signed. A basement was excavated and several rooms including a kitchen built.