Northport is a historic maritime village located within the Town of Huntington on Long Island, New York. Initially designated as Great Cow Harbour by 17th-century English colonists and officially renamed Northport in 1837.
Population: 7,401
Latitude: 40° 54' 3.35" N
Longitude: -73° 20' 35.41" W
Greenlawn is a station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road near the intersection of Boulevard Avenue and Broadway (Suffolk CR 86) in Greenlawn, New York, a few blocks north of Pulaski Road. It is the first station east of Hunti…
Cummings Park is located in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
Christeen is the oldest oyster sloop in the United States and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992.
Christ Church founded in 1705 is an historic Episcopal parish located at 61 East Main Street in Oyster Bay, New York. Several church buildings have occupied this site, including one that served as soldiers barracks during the Revolutionary War. In t…
Wincoma is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York on the westernmost headland of East Neck on the North Shore of Long Island. The hamlet survives within the Village of Huntington Bay in the Town of Huntington. Wincoma was an estate-heavy enclave and m…
Wilson House is one of the oldest houses in Oyster Bay, New York, still standing on its original site. The house dates back to the 1750s, and is an example of saltbox architecture. This refers to houses, often south-facing, with sloping rear section…
Wightman Memorial Baptist Church in Oyster Bay, New York, was first built in 1908. It is the third building on this site. The first Baptist congregation met in Oyster Bay as early as 1700, and Oyster Bay received its first ordained minister in 1724.…
Vernon Valley, New York is a hamlet located in Suffolk County, in the Township of Huntington.
St. Paul's Methodist Church is a small Methodist church building built on Orchard Street, Oyster Bay, New York in 1858 and now occupied by the North Shore Community Church. In 1895, Joseph B. Wright bought the building from them and continued his bu…
The Octagon Hotel, built as the Nassau House by Luther Jackson in 1851, was a pre-eminent political and social meeting space in Oyster Bay, New York. This eight-sided building is also believed to be among only a few like it on Long Island and perhap…
The Noroton Heights Fire Department, or the NHFD is one of three all-volunteer fire departments serving the town of Darien, Connecticut. Each volunteer fire departments serve a specific geographic region within the town, as well as combining service…
The Mount Stony Brook Observatory is an astronomical observatory operated by Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. It is located on the roof of the Earth and Space Sciences Building. The dome contains a Meade 14" Maksutov–Cassegrain teles…
Moore's Building is a historic building located in the downtown area of the Hamlet of Oyster Bay and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. First built in 1901, the building gained significance when Theodore Roosevelt had his staff take…
Mill Hill Historic Park in Norwalk, Connecticut is a living history museum composed of three buildings: the circa 1740 Governor Thomas Fitch IV "law office", the circa 1826 Downtown District Schoolhouse, and the 1835 Norwalk Town Hall; as well as a …
The Mill Dam Bridge carries Mill Dam Road across the tidal mudflat of Centerport Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, in Centerport, Suffolk County, New York.
Longshore Sailing School (LSS), a sailing school with locations in Westport and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Kayak for a Cause was a non-profit kayaking fundraiser that took place from 2001 to 2012 on Long Island Sound on the eastern coast of the United States. A group of several-hundred kayakers would cross the Sound from Norwalk, Connecticut to the north…
Hood African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in 1848 is an historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located in Oyster Bay, New York. It holds the distinction of being the oldest continuous congregation holding services in its origina…