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HISTORIC AND NATURAL DISTRICTS FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
INVENTORY FORINT
UNIQUE SITE NO. 1034 Cir 00080
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD.
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: Fall 1945
`1'own Hall, Main Road
YOUR ADDRESS: Southold, L.I . .N.Y. 11971 TELF,PHONF.:516 765--18 2
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
L NAME OF DISTRICT: Hamlet of Laurel
2, COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold _,VILLAGE: Laurel
3. DESCRIPTION: Laurel is P low-density farming community that lies at
the southwest corner of the Town of Southold with part in Riverhead .
Laurel lies south of Sound Avenue , west of Factory Road and is
bounded on the south by Peconic Bay. It is traversed by State
Route 25 {Main Road ) and the long Island Railroad . Small summer
cottages are round facing the bay.
4. SIGNIFICANCE: Laurel-which was originally called Franklinville-
was settled later than its neighbors to the east. A church
was built in 1831 and an academy in 1832.
The most important remaining old houses are the TJcCarthy/Kuester
house -which is a typical North Fork Cape Cod-style house- and the
Youngs/'.Nolte house (Hedgewood Farm) . The latter is a vary hand-
some example of early 19th century architecture. There are two
other houses like this in Cutchogue - with the same gambrel roof
and unusual original dormers .
A few summer cottages were built at the turn-of-the-century, the
majority are more recent.
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6. SOURCES: Historical Sketches of Suffolk County, R.N.Bayles , 1874,
Pg• 367.
Chace , Map of Suffolk County, 1858
7 . THREATS TO AREA:
BY ZONING ❑ BY ROADS ❑ BY DEVELOPERS C
BY DETERIORATION ❑ OTHER
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
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This old home of Leander Terry on the south side of the Main Road in Laurel, west of the Southold-
Riverhead Town line, is no longer standing. Mr. Terry, a Civil War veteran, is said to have used a room in
his home as an early Post Office. However, the first recorded postmaster in Laurel was Oliver Atwood, who
was appointed on February 18, 1898. He had bought and was occupying the old Franklinvil!e Academy and
for a while the front room in the Academy was the Laurel Post Office.
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About 1900, Oliver Atwood, built this small Post Office building on the north side of the Main Ro
just east of the Riverhead-Southold Town line. It is now a part of a restaurant east of the original site.
A second Post Officebuilding,west of the former Franklinville Academy is the present Laurel Post Office.
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