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HISTORIC AND NATURAL DISTRICTS FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. 103,(Q, 01281
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:Nov. 7, 1985
YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hallp Main Road TELEPHONE: 516/765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y, 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
L NAME OF DISTRICT: New Suffolk - hamlet
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: New Suffolk
3. DESCRIPTION: New Suffolk is a neck of land that is very nearly an
island. It lies one and a half miles south of Cutchogue and is
bounded on the east by Cutchogue Harbor, on the south by Peconic
Bay, on the west by west Creek and on the north by Dam Meadow
Pond. The small village, which is laid out in regular squares
in a grid pattern, is separated from Cutchogue on the north
by a wide acreage of marsh, farmland and orchards for which
Suffolk County has acquired the development rights. On the
west, likewise, the community is separated from Mattituck by
the extensive wetlands of West Creek. The land is level and
relatively low with some bluffs along the southern shore front
which is the site of larger estates.
4. SIGNIFICANCE: This hamlet was developed in the mid 1700s by settlers
from Cutchogue, first as a commons and by 1759 as the beginnings
of a fishing village, then as a shipyard and a sea going port.
By the 1820s it was the terminal for packet boats arriving from
New York. In 1836 the village was laid out in the grid pattern
that one sees today, and was named after Suffolk County in
England. The building of sea going vessels developed further
in the nineteenth century and by the end of that century the
first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy was brought there
for development, fitting and trials and it thus became, America' s
first submarine base.
Scallops and oysters were harvested in its waters and processed
in the dozen or more scallop- and oyster houses that lined its
v�aterfront, some until recently. The village retains its rare ,
genuine character.
East Creek is also known as Booth' s Neck, Robins Island Neck
or Wickham' s Creek. gest Creek is known also as Tuthill' s Creek.
5. MAP - see attached N. Y.S. DOT
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6. SOURCES: Butterworth, Marjorie M. The New Suffolk Stor .Greenport 1983,
Hall, Warren. Pagans Puritans Patriots of Yesterdays Southold.
Cutchogue 1975.
A Summer of History. Official Program. Town of Southold. 1965
MAPS : Belcher-Hyde, E. Atlas of Suffolk County_, Long Islands New
York. Vol. II. 1909
Beers , Comstock. Atlas of Long Island. 1873
Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
7 . THREATS TO AREA.
BY ZONING ❑ BY ROADS ❑ BY DEVELOPERS L:� by inappropriate
alterations
BY DETERIORATION ❑ OTHER
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
8. LOCAL ATTITUDES TOWARD THE AREA:
There is a general interest on the part of the inhabitants
to preserve the character of this hamlet.
9 PHOTOS: see forms NS-2 - NS-48.
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' cause of a discrepancy in the e .
mr"asurements made more than
1(11 years ago. The variation,
not important in itself, has ,
vexed and mystified surveyors
ever since.
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ho was employed by Youngs & p
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pretty fair job. Newer -Suf
the older � �
i s unique among tit
villages of Long island in �!
that it was laid out. in .�
blocks, and so p]anned that
every street, rums to the r i
waterfront
Streets F011OW Compass i• ,`
Each black was supposed to
be 200 by 300 feet, each
right of way FO feet wide.
The streets were plotted to
run perfectly north and south Whal i was another of the smith shop-
and east and west. Ilportant industries, and one 'Tile Andr ell Oyst�
That additional link may of the huge cauldrons used to has a large pla,which
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have prevented a perfect t. OUToil may still be seen The company,
fob - hut it was and is still on the Goldsmith & Tuthill
one of the largest shippe
good eonugh for all practical of shell oysters in the ea
property. employs some forty men a
purposes.
The site of modern New Miss Acker's Home Oldest maintains three work boa
Suffolk was a part of the The oldest house in the and one watch boat in i
Josiah Albertson, farm before cumnnity is the residence of work.
it Youngs & Tuthill purchased It Miss Szrah Acker. The dates i+� Famed For Sport Fishier
_"3n the early, 1830's aiui start- the chimney reads 1760. It
*perhaps no other spot
.- -- their development, and stands on Old kiarbor lane, Lori Island is so well kn,
started, also a land boom tine original road into the for its sport fishing. H
which continued until 1840• village.
• in the fishing season
development firm was * 1600 the Holland Sub-
,„ The develop cO�
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Ira. ii. In Opened a plant fleet of over 11'10 Party 1'c
prised of Ezra Yours , marine Golip&nY p as.d flQl as many rowba
Tuthill, Isaac Tuthill and in New Suffolk for the as- Y to the rumen
Abiel. Tuthill. sembling of submarines. The Ghrnr to New Suffolk for
They were not mistaken in basin was used as a testing g
their appraisal ai' the advan- ground. liere was developed fswus peconic Bay weakf
Cages of the sheltered 180- the first successful under- irg•
acre peninsula, and their water boat, and the design *One of the xell b
" attractions of New Suffo]
offer of home sl Les in the used for the Russian Govern- an point
planned community found many ment was perfected later. One Kimogno
s said to
takers. of the o� models may still land which 1 tile 1 dicer
be seen on top of Goldsmi t.h & L•een used by
Consisted Of Two Farms a s i nal ground. Tile
TUthill's show rummy formerly g4 developer