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| Start | NativeAmerican tribes(the Algonquin) flourish on Long Island. | |
| 1600 | Europeanexplorers arrive in the “New Land”, Henry Hudson arrives at Long Island in 1609. The Dutchsettle the western end, while the British settle in the eastern regions. | |
| 1640 | AmericasColonial whaling industry beginson the shores of Long Island in the area of Southampton. Soon after,Brookhaven settlers would hunt and process whales of the shore ofFireplace (now known as Brookhaven Hamlet). | |
| 1655 | Brookhaventownship isestablished by a small group of English settlers and the whaling industrypromotes growth. “Old Town Road”, likelya native American trail, is created to move settlers from Setauket south throughCoram and ends in FirePlace (now Brookhaven Hamlet) just to the west of theMastic Salt Hay fields. | |
| 1657 | RichardWoodhull makes the first purchase of land on behalf of the town from localNative Americans. The purchase covers two necks of land on the MasticPeninsula. | |
| 1664 | The 'Old Purchase at South” was made from Tobaccos, a chief of theUnchechaug Indians, which included the western part of South Haven, Brookhavenand Bellport. This was purchased from the Indians for four coats and about $16in cash, and the deed is still among the town papers at Brookhaven Town Hall. In additionto getting hay in this part of the town, men came here from the north sidesettlements to go whaling at an early date, as the oil could be used in theirlamps and whalebone was a versatile material. –Thomas R Bayles | |
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| 1700 | William 'Tangier' Smith sets aside 175 acres of the land occupied by the Unkechaug Indians on the west side of the Mastic (Forge) River at Poosepatuck Creek to be theirs for the annual rent of two ears of corn. The Poosepatuck Indian Reservation is still in existence today, however it has shrunk to 55 acres due to unscrupulous land dealings by early officials. –by Van R. Field Illustrated History of Moriches Bay Area | |
| 1705 | MajorWilliam Henry Smith, 2nd eldest son, inherits The Manor of St. Georgeupon the death of William 'Tangier' Smith. The Setauket estate known asSt. George Manor is inherited by his eldest son Colonel Henry Smith. | |
| 1709 | TheManor House at St.George isbuilt for William Henry Smith. The original Patent was granted in1693. The house would later be seized by the British during theAmerican Revolution. The British were defeated there in 1780 by Col.Benjamin Talmadge. The Smith family returned to the Manor after thewar. The Manor in all its splendor still exhists today as a museum andis open for weekend tours between May and October. | |
| 1717 | TheOld South Haven Presbyterian Church is established and attended throughthe years by area residents such as the Floyds, General NathanielWoodhull, Judge William Smith and Colonel Josiah Smith. The churchwould later be moved in 1960 to its current location at the corner ofSouth Country Road and Beaver Dam Road in Brookhaven. | |
| 1718 | RichardFloyd ll purchases over 4400 acres of property from William Tangier Smith ofthe Manor of St. George. The property stretched six miles north fromMoriches Bay and approximately one mile west from the Mastic or Forge River. Itincluded use rights for the Great South Beach on what is now known as Fire Island.Richard Floyd II gave this property to his youngest son, Nicoll Floyd (1703-1755). | |
| 1722 | Famous Revolutionary PatriotNathaniel Woodhull is born at the first Richard Woodhull estate,located between Hemlock and Daisy Drive on the south side ofNeighborhood Road (destroyed by fire April 5, 1784...Ken Spooner).A second home (pictured below) would be built by his wife at the corner of Corn Ct. and Washington Drive. | |
| 1724 | Nicoll Floyd, Father of WilliamFloyd, moves onto the property and builds the first part of the estate,also referred to as 'The Old Mastic House'. The original home was a twostory, six room shingled wood frame house. He developed the land into aprosperous plantation, using both slave and free laborers to raisegrain, flax, sheep and cattle. | |
| 1734 | William Floyd, delegate and signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born on December 17th in Brookhaven, NY. | |
| 1738 | Constructionof the first road through Mastic is complete and leads to the Manor ofSt. George. This same road would later be used by Col. BenjaminTalmadge during the raid on the Manor House and is currently refurredto as the 'Talmadge Trail'. Part of this trail would become Smith Roadwhich heads south through Shirley. | |
| 1743 | On the death of Major William Henry Smith in 1743, his eldest surviving son, Judge William Smith, inherited the Mastic estate. | |
| 1755 | William Floyd inherits the Mastic Plantation at the young age of 20 from his father, Nicoll Floyd. | |
| 1761 | RichardFloyd Mansion, known as 'Pattersquas', and property consisting ofapproximately 3000 acres is established. The property would laterbecome the estate of Dr. Roberts and eventually by Dr. Frank Calabro Sr., then becoming the Bayview Hospital inthe late 1940's (see 1946). | |
| 1776 | William Floyd, a member of theContinental Congress, signs the Declaration of Independence on August2nd, and will not be able to return to his estate for another 7 years.The British seize his home and property after defeating the colonialarmy during the Battle of Long Island. Nathaniel Woodhull is captured by the British and dies fromhis wounds at the house depicted below which was located in the Dutchvillage of New Utrecht, now Brooklyn. He is buried at his home inMastic. | |
| 1779 | Richard Floyd (British Loyalist), relocates to New Brunswick, Canada in October as England lost the Revolutionary War. | |
| 1780 | TheBattle of Mastic, usingwhale boat warfare. On November 21, 1780, Colonel Benjamin Tallmadgeand his dragoons, 80 strong, rowed across the Long Island Sound undercover of darkness from Fairfield, Conneticut to Mt. Sinai, New York.The next day they proceeded due south to the Mastic Peninsula, capturedand burned down the Manor of St. George, which the British hadturned into a fort. On their march back with captured soldiers,Tallmadge stopped in Coram and ordered the burning of 300 tons of haywhich the British had been stockpiling for the winter. They thenreturned to Connecticut. Samuel Carmen Sr. purchases the mills along the lower CarmansRiver and later opened a store, tavern and Inn. Over the course of thenext century, the Carman family became quite wealthy and influental,and , by the mid-1800s, owned much of the land on the west side ofCarmans River. Sam Carman Jr. had 12 children; in the 1840s, one ofthem, Joseph Henry, was given about 30-acres that included SquassuxLanding. -Marty Vanlith | |
| 1783 | After suffering much damage from the British occupation, William Floyd returns to Mastic to rebuild his estate. On May 3, Gen. George Washington presented the 'Badge of MilitaryMerit' (later to become the Purple Heart) to Sgt. Elijah Churchil ofthe Continental Army citing him for gallantry in action in November of1780 at Fort St. George (Manor of St. George) in Mastic. | |
| 1784 | The original Woodhull Estate,believed to have been located between Hemlock and Daisy Drive in MasticBeach, is destroyed by fire during the month of April. It would laterbe rebuilt by his widow Ruth Woodhull at the corner of Corn Ct. andWashington Drive in Mastic Beach and is the structure commonly pictured in Postcards like the one below.The second estate house was demolished in the 1930's. (see 1938 and 2013). The Richard Floyd estate, known as Pattersquas, was conveyed by theCommission of Forfeited Estates to Benjamin Floyd, his brother, andthen eventually winds up in the hands of William Tangier Smith, ownerof the Manor of St. George. | |
| 1789 | William Floyd elected to the First United States Congress (1789-1791). | |
| 1790 | Dr. Daniel Robert who hadmarried into the Tangier Smith Family, moves into the Richard FloydEstate and begins running the Pattersquas property farm. In October1779, Richard Floyd (British Loyalist), relocates to New Brunswick,Canada, as England lost the Revolutionary War. | |
| 1791 | Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, good friends of William Floyd, visit his estate. | |
| 1803 | At age 63, William Floyd leavesLong Island with his family to establish a new home in Westernville,New York. Upon his death in 1821, he leaves the Mastic Property to hisson Nicoll Floyd, II. | |
| 1813 | The Brookhaven Township isdivided into school districts for the various villages and hamlets.....Thomas R. Bayles, History of Patchogue | |
| 1827 | The Moriches Post Office wasestablished with James M. Fanning as postmaster. Originally located ina hotel conducted by the Fannings, it would later be moved to thecountry store of Edmund Hallock (shown below) in 1837. The Suffolk Club (now Southaven County Park) is formed by DanielWebster, Martin Van Buren and others. The property is first leased thenpurchased from the Carman Family and utilized as a private hunting andfishing preserve located just north of the 'goin-over' (wooden bridgeover the Carmans or Conneticut river) and running to the area known asYaphank. | |
| 1830 | TheFloyd-Murray House (aka the Petty House), located on the north side ofMontauk Hwy, at the Southport Shopping Center, is recognied as an arearesidence that provided shelter for William Floyd Estate workers. In July of 2012 the house was declared a landmark by the Town of Brookhaven. Efforts are being made to have NYS and the federalgovt recognize the house as a landmark. | |
| 1834 | Thefirst one room school opened in Moriches on the North side of what isnow Montauk Hwy, just one mile east of the Forge River. Later, in 1884a second schoolhouse replaced the original (Rita Rech). 2 | |
| 1835 | The Roberts Family, in-laws ofthe Smiths, take ownership of the Richard Floyd Pattersquas estate withthe drafting of a formal deed which is held privately and not fileduntil the year 1883. | |
| 1841 | Nicoll Floydmoves in with daughter Catherine Floyd in the Nicoll Floyd homesteadlocated just north of the William Floyd Estate (old Mastic house). Thiswas just 10 years prior to his death in 1851. The homestead, called 'Taupeonk', was located just south of Moss Lots.Currently a private residence. | |
| 1842 | John Gelston Floyd, grandson of Colonel William Floyd, returns to Mastic to run the WilliamFloyd Estate and also serving as a Suffolk County Judge and New YorkSenator. By 1854, he had already begun selling off parts of landholdings surrounding the estate grounds. | |
| 1849 | Moriches Life Saving Stationestablished, one of three on Fire Island in this area (see entries for1871 and 1872). These stations were built to make water rescues whenships ran aground in the surf or off shore. This station served until1954. The photo below is the 'SS Oregon' which went down off FireIsland in 1886. | |
| 1862 | The Great Fire of 1862 started in Smithtown, burned south to the Moriches Bay, and caused severe damage to local area property. | |
| 1871 | Forge River Life Saving Stationestablished on Fire Island opposite the mouth of the Forge River.Existed until 1948. The ship the Charlie Hickman ran aground in 1884one half mile east of this life saving station. The rescues werehandled by all three life saving stations. | |
| 1872 | Smith Point Life Saving Stationestablished on Fire Island opposite Smith Point. Existed until 1937.The photo below is the 'Bessie White' which ran aground off Smith pointin the 1922. The Smith Point Station was not in service at this time.The crew managed to launch life boats and were able to make it to shore. | |
| 1880 | Thelarge and extravagant estate known as 'Moss Lots' is built by WilliamBuck Dana for his wife Kitty Floyd Dana. William Dana was a lawyer andinstrumental in dividing up the Floyd Property among his five children. The estate was located in thesection now known as Old Mastic (east end of Riverside Dr. and the southern end ofOcean View Dr.) and given historic status by the Townof Brookhaven. August Floyd homestead established...located in the Ospey Point area (end of Wavecrest Dr., Mastic Beach) | |
| 1881 | TheSouth Side Railroad (now theLIRR) comes to Mastic with a station put in on the east side of MasticRoad and remained there until 1960 when the station was moved toShirley. You can see how stuned the trees are in the background, theresult of the great fire of 1862. | |
| 1896 | OnOctober 9th, Walter T. Shirley, real estate developer, is born inBrooklyn, New York. Later, in the 1930's, he would develop thecommunity of Shirley, L.I., named after himself. Frank and Hannah Lawrence buy 225 acres located in Mastic Beach betweenPattersquas and Odells creek, which became known as the Lawrence Estate. | |
| 1911 | Tolfree Estate (Island ViewManor), built by Fred J. Quimby as a spec house for his ill fatedTangier development. It was used by a Rose Quinby until the early1920's when the Smiths repossessed the land they sold to Quinby'sTangier Manor Corporation. It was soon resold in 1922 to Edward andAline Tolfree. The estate was purchased by the Cutro Family after WorldWar II and used as a night club where such celebrities as Tony Bennet(pictured below) would appear in the early 1950s Real Estate investor/developer Fred Quinby has first wooden Tangier Bridge built to cross from Smith Point to Fire Island . | |
| 1912 | Author Henry Lanier purchased the Richard Floyd Estate also known as Pattersquas and 'Doctors Point'.Henry was the son of poet Sydney Lanier and the first person outsidethe Floyd and Robert's families to own the Pattersquas estate. | |
| 1916 | J.F.Knapp buys property from the Lawrence Family that would become known asthe Knapp Estate and Mansion. The estate was located south ofNeighborhood Rd and east of Pattersquash Creek in Mastic Beach. Itwould later be purchased by St. Jude's church in 1950, destroyed by firein 1959. | |
| 1917 | The Third Unit of the Aerial Coast Patrol was established at the Knapp Estate in Mastic Beach. Camp Upton, pictured below, was built in 1917 as an induction andtraining facility for new soldiers who were to fight in World War I.The camp was named after Major General Emory Upton, a Union General inthe Civil War. In 1944, Camp upton was used as a hospital to treat woundedveterans of the war. It also served as a Prisoner of War Camp, when inMay of 1945, 500 German prisoners were sent to Camp Upton. | |
| 1918 | Walter T. Shirley is stationedat Camp Upton during World War I, and gets his first glimpse of theland he would later purchase and develop. Joseph Allen Titmus and Josiah Smith Robert established the 'SwiftStream Duck Farm' on both sides of the Forge River in Mastic andMoriches. | |
| 1919 | Jurgeliewicz Family Duck farm on Barnes Road is established, one of several duck farms in the area. | |
| 1920 | Radio broadcasting takes off anda transmitter is stationed at Radio Point in Moriches. The golden ageof radio, circa the 1920s, brought an early radio station to the eastend of Smith Street in East Moriches. Run by the Independence WirelessCo., the station housed a spark transmitter used to communicated withships off shore. ....Newsday, February 22, 1988 Anson W. Hard purchased the outstanding shares in the Suffolk Club (nowSouthaven Park) from the other members, and used the property as aprivate estate. After WW I, Anson's son Kenneth established a huntingand fishing lodge, known as the Suffolk Lodge Game Preserve. It laterbecame Suffolk County's first public park, Southaven County Park. AnsonHard pictured below fishing in the Carman's River on the Hard Estate,circa 1925..courtesy of SouthavenBrookhaven.org Moriches Grammar School established (currently known as the Little RedSchool House). Elementary school students from our area attended thisfirst multiroom school. High School students would attend the CenterMoriches High School. | |
| 1920s | Mastic Park from Montauk Highway to the bay developed by Arthur and Warren Smedback and the Brooklyn Citizen. MasticPark General Store & Post Office is built. Originally owned by theNapolitano family, it would later be sold to Hans Anderson and then toWalter McLeans. The business would later be known as 'McLeans Market'in the 50s and 60s. Building still remains as a spanish market and islocated at corner of Herkimer St. and Montauk Highway. Smith Point Beach used for several desert films. Desert movies weremade wildly popular in the 1920s. by Rudolf Valentino's portrayal ofThe Sheik (1921) & sequel Son of the Sheik (1926). The 1910bridge's construction that allowed cameras, camels and crew to crossthe narrow bay, was supervised by local resident Michael Gillispie ofTangier (now Shirley) for Quinby's Tangier Development Company.According to historian Van Field, it was mainly the movie companies whokept repairing the bridge when it would get torn up by winter ice....Ken Spooner | |
| 1922 | Texaco Gas Station owned by Lewis Parr opens (now Mastic Liquors). | |
| 1925 | Mastic Fire Departmentestablished. It was organized by Russell Ferrer, Anthony Tebbens,Harold Lukert, Joseph Titmus and Thomas Eyton-Jones (1st Chief, inphoto with white hat). | |
| 1926 | Brooklyn Citizen purchases the J.B. Lawrence estate and it's subdivided into lots for sale to the public. | |
| 1927 | MasticBeach Property Owners (MBPOA) Clubhouse was built by Arthur Tebbins. In1928, Mortimer Wahl became the first President of the MBPOA. The 15 room Mastic Beach Hotel is built just behind the MBPO Clubhouse by Paul Schulte. The Smadback Brothers purchase the Pattersquas Estate and property from Josephine Lanier. Tangier Bridge destroyed by ice flows. Hedges Hotel pictured across the bay, was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane. | |
| 1930 | Home Guardian sells the Pattersquas Mansion to Playwright John Howard Lawson. Tombstones in the Lane Family Cemetery, located on the north side ofMontauk Hwy at Titmus Drive in Mastic, are moved to the Mount PleasantCemetery in East Moriches. The exact spot where the Lane Cemetery waslocated is still being investigated. | |
| 1933 | Paul Schulte's Tavern opens withthe end of prohibition and is situated along side his corner market.The tavern itself is a converted barn from the Knapp Estate. | |
| 1935 | Mastic Beach Fire Department is established, and headed by Jules Jacobs. | |
| 1936 | St. Andrew's Church is established in Mastic Beach. | |
| 1937 | Brookhaven Town Policeestablished with a 4th precinct office located in Center Moriches and patrolled the Mastic Peninsula.Their service ended in 1959 with the establishment of the SuffolkCounty Police Department in 1960. | |
| 1938 | The 2nd General Woodhullhomestead is torn down on Memorial Day by Willie Schluder. Some of thewood would be used in construction of a home in the Hamptons. The Hurricane of 1938 causes massive flooding, death and destruction to the Mastic-Shirley area. Successful Investment Banker Maurice Wertheim purchases 1800 acres ofproperty straddling the Carmens River as a private hunting reserve andfor waterfowl conservation. He calls the property 'Stealaway' (now knownas the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge). J.F. Knapp sells his estate to Home Guardian thereby allowing theNeighborhood Road (originally called Birch Road) to connect the East and West parts of Mastic Beach.The sections sold by Knapp would be listed as 9 and 10. ...Ken Spooner | |
| 1940 | The Mastic Beach Property OwnersAssociation (MBPOA) is formerly established on July 30th. A deed wasfiled by the Home Guardian Company and the MBPOA giving overownership of all land assets for $1. | |
| 1941 | The area of 'Tangiers' (later becomes Shirley) is dividedinto quarter acre plots and sold as Summer retreats for the workingclasses of New York City. Mastic Beach already has over 1000 propertyowners and a Summer population of over 4000 residents. By 1950, WalterT. Shirley had owned more than 1000 acres of property. | |
| 1944 | Mastic Flight Strip (nowBrookhaven-Calabro Airport) built to provide logistical support for theU.S. Army Corp. Title of the airport was transferred to New York Stateafter the war. In 1961 the airport was acquired by the Town ofBrookhaven. It was later renamed in honor of Dr. Frank Calabro, animportant figure in the airport's development. Dr. Calabro and his wife Ruth were tragically killed in a plane crash in 1991. | |
| 1945 | Mastic Atheletic Club (akaMACs). The first organized baseball club in the Mastics. Founded byErnest Stanzoni (kneeling on left). The team played in The WesternSuffolk Baseball League. (note: Carl Yazstremski played in that leaguebefore going on to the Boston Red Sox.) | |
| 1946 | The Arthur H. Clune American Legion Post 1533 was formed. Namedfor Arthur H. Clune, a decorated WWII veteran who was killed at the ageof 24 or 25 in an MVA on Mastic Beach Rd. just north of the legionclubhouse. The first commander of the legion was George Barnes Sr. Dr. Frank Calabro purchases the Pattersquas Estate Mansion (originallythe estate of Richard Floyd) and turns it into the Bayview Hospital. Pat Messinetti and Mike Dipierro's Texaco gas station built at five corners intersection in Mastic Beach. | |
| 1947 | Maurice Wertheim donatesapproximately 2000 acres to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Theproperty becomes the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge. Joseph Allen Titmus, a prominent area resident, dies on August 27th. | |
| 1949 | St. Jude's Roman Catholic Church is established in Mastic Beach. | |
| 1952 | William Floyd School openedon Lexington Rd. in Shirley on Land donated to the school district byWalter T. Shirley. 401 students K thru 8 attended. The building becamethe Jr. and Sr. High School in 1960 after the opening of the NathanielWoodhull Elementary School. | |
| 1953 | Shirley Drive-In (picturedbelow) opens. It was located at the commercial property now calledSouthPort shopping center. Prior to the development of the Drive-In byWalter T. Shirley, it was used as a horse training facility with a track andstables. | |
| 1956 | Mastic Beach Hebrew Center established. | |
| 1958 | Carman's Mill torn down to make way for the Sunrise Highway extension. Located just below the mill pond at Southaven Park. Yuma Athletic Club founded. When Mike Figluizzi, the founder ofthe Yuma Athletic Club, was growing up in New York City in the 1930'sand 40's, a group of local men provided him and his friends withbaseballs and bats so they could play, and possibly stay out oftrouble. During that time one of the men went on a trip to Yuma, AZ.Mike never forgot the generosity of those men and decided Yuma was afitting name for the athletic club he was starting to honor the memoryof the men who were so generous. | |
| 1959 | The Knapp Manion burns to the ground in February of 1959. Smith Point Bridge officially opened on July 4th. | |
| 1960 | On January 1st the new SuffolkCounty Police Department was formed and covered the 6 western townshipsof Suffolk County including the Town of Brookhaven. Police protectionin this area was previously provided by the Brookhaven Town Police,which was dissolved in 1959. Nathaniel Woodhull Elementary School opened on Francis Landau Place in Shirley. | |
| 1961 | The Mastic Sports Club wasfounded in 1961 by Fred Wesemann and Chuck Zeigler. The club stillprovides exposure to baseball and other sports for hundreds of localyouth. | |
| 1964 | Smith Point County Park opens on Fire Island. Fire Island National Seashore was established as a unit of the NationalPark Service on September 11, 1964. Fire Island National Seashore(FINS) is a United States National Seashore that protects a 26-milesection of Fire Island, an approximately 30 mile long barrier islandseparated from Long Island by the Great South Bay. The island is partof New York State's Suffolk County. | |
| 1965 | The William Floyd Estate isauthorized to become an addition to the Fire Island National Seashore.The estate contains the ancestral house, grounds, and cemetery of theWilliam Floyd family. William Floyd, a Revolutionary War General, and asigner of the Declaration of Independence, was born in the house in1734. | |
| 1966 | The new William Floyd HighSchool opened on Mastic Beach Rd. in Mastic Beach. The original highschool on Lexington Rd. became the William Floyd Elementary School. | |
| 1969 | Moss Lots, a large andextravagant home on the Dana Estate property, now called Old Mastic,burns to the ground on September 5th of that year. | |
| 1974 | The Mastics - Moriches - Shirley Community Library is established. | |
| 1975 | Tangier Smith Elementaryand Moriches Elementary Schools opened. Tangier Smith is located in theschool complex south of the high school. Moriches Elementary is onMontauk Hwy. in Moriches behind the Little Red School House (MorichesGrammar School). | |
| 1976 | William Paca Middle School opened in the school complex between the high school and the Tangier Smith Elementary School. | |
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| 1979 | John S. Hobart ElementarySchool opened on Meadowmere Ave. in Shirley on property just East andSouth of the original high school. | |
| 1980 | Old Mastic receives Historic District designation from the Town of Brookhaven. | |
| 1986 | The Bayview Hospital (Richard Floyd Estate) is destroyed by arson in February. | |
| 1996 | On July 17th, at approximately8:45 p.m., TWA Flight 800 while in route to France with 230 passengers on board, explodes over the Atlantic a few miles offthe coast of the Moriches Bay Communities. An extensive investigation ensued. | |
| 1998 | The new 7th Precinct of theSuffolk County Police Department is established on the East End ofBrookhaven Town. This area had originally been part of the 5th Precinctlocated in Patchogue. The Precinct is located in North Shirley just offthe William Floyd Parkway. The new war memorial is installed. Located on Montauk Highway nearHerkimer Street intersection. Plaques at ground level memorialize thethree Mastic residents that died in battle. | |
| 1999 | The Mastic Peninsula Historical Society founded by Rita Rech with the help of Edward Romaine. A large addition to the William Floyd High School opens, deemed necessary due to the large increases in the student population. | |
| 2003 | The William Floyd MiddleSchool opened on Moriches Middle Island Rd in Moriches. It was built asa secondary Middle School for students grades 6 thru 8. | |
| 2004 | TWA Flight 800 Memorial at Smith Point County Park beach opens to the public on July 4th. | |
| 2007 | War Memorialat William Floyd High School is dedicated on May 10th, in honor ofLeslie Bernstein, Thomas Wilwerth, and Paulo Marko Pacificador, formerstudents at William Floyd. | |
| 2009 | Montauk Highway Project is started in Aprilto enhance traffic flow, reduce gridlock and improve safety along anearly two-mile stretch of Montauk Highway between Shirley andMastic. The project ran from William Floyd Parkway to just eastof Mastic Rd. in Mastic. New curbs and sidewalks on both sides of theroadway were part of the project and trees were also planted along theentire length. The project took almost two years to complete. | |
| 2010 | Mastic Beach becomes an incorporated village. | |
| 2011 | Jurgeliewicz Duck Farm closes in August, the last of what was once a strong and thriving industry for the area. Tropical Storm Irene travels over Long Island on August 29th and causes major wind and flood damage to the tri-hamlet area. | |
| 2012 | Tropical Storm Sandy causes severe flood damage and destruction to homes across the tri-hamlet area. Floyd-Murray House receives historic landmark status from the Town of Brookhaven. | |
| 2013 | Wood from General Woodhull'shome which was sent to the Hamptons (see 1938 entry) was returned tothe Village of Mastic Beach to be reused in a visitor's center. William Floyd Statue Dedication at the new Tri-Hamlet Village Square onDecember 13th. The Statue was originally located at the Mastics -Moriches - Shirley Community Library at the front north west corner facing Roberts Road. Originally designed and built by local resident Santo Matarazzo (1928-2008). William Floyd Statue at newlocation closeup of plaques at the foot of statue |
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