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HISTORIC AND NATURAL DISTRICTS FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. !QS IO. 0" 66
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD.
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO,
YOUR NAME:Tom of S outhold/SPLIA DATE:. April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall , Main Road .TELEPHONE: 15 765-1892
Southold , L.I . , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Comm-Alud-ty DeyelQpment Office
1. NAME OF DISTRICT: Hamlet of Southold
2. COUNTY: _ Suffolk TO%VN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. DESCRIPTION: The hamlet of Southold is a farming community that
is the town Neat for the Town of Southold . It is bounded by
the 7,ong Island Sound on the north, by Arshamomoque Pond on the
east , by Southold Bay on the south, and by the hamlet of Peconic
on the west . It includes Grest Hog Neck, a peninsula of consid-
erable size that extends to the south between Southold Bay end
Hog Neck Bay. The peninsula is about one and a half miles in
width and contains some two thousand acres , most of which was
excellent farmland .*
The historic east-west highway is Main Road , N.Y. State Route
25 . The railroad , which arrived in 1844 , traverses the hamlet
just north of Main Road . A newer highway, CR 48, runs roughl
4. SIGNIFICANCE: (continued
The hamlet of Southold was the original settlement of the
town. It was a thickly settled agricultural district with
highly cultivated farms and enterprising, successful farmers,
with the brickyards an important local industry. Mariners a-
bounded , as even after the coming of the railroad , shipping
by water continued . The eastern part of the hamlet , near the
shipyard and harbor was the favored location for the homes of
the shipwrights , the mariners and the merchants.*'* A large
number of the early houses are still standing.
In 1874 the population was about 1100, in 1923 the population
was 2000. With the advent of the railroad regular summer
boarders and cottagers were attracted to the area which
5. MAP: ( continued )
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6. SOURCES: *Historical and Descri tive Sketches of Suffolk County.
Richard ay es
**Whitaker' s Southold . Rev. Epher Whitaker
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7 . THREATS TO AREA:
BY ZONING ❑ BY ROADS ❑ BY DEVELOPERS ❑
BY DETERIORATION ❑ OTHERbY unsympathetic r _mndel i nom,
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
8. LOCAL ATTITUDES TOWARD THE AREA:
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9. PHOTOS: See forms SD 2 - SD 247 .
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3 . Description: ( continued )
parallel to and north of the railroad .
The terrain is relatively level sloping from the bluffs
along; the Sound shore to the marshes and inlets on the
bay front .
4. Significance : ( continued )
introduced a new era of prosperity. As Craven wrote in
1932 , "Sound and Bay and the inlets from the Bay are now
lined with beautiful estates and elegant dwellings , many
of them enjoyed by their owners year round ." A few of
these estates and portions of others still remain.