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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES SD 1
ALIfANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0470 NEG. N0,
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: .. April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Fall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892
Southold L.I. ,�N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): ilroad Underpass
2. COUNTY: Suffnik TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: u_ thold
3. STREET LOCATION:acrnss Ackerly Pond Lane, in east-west direction
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h. private ❑
S. PRESENT OWNER: L. I.-Ra—ilroad ADDRESS:
0. USF: original: Underpass Present: Underpass
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes nX No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8, BUILDINC; a. clapboard ❑ b. stone 21 c. brick ❑ d. board and batten El
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ 1'. shingles ❑ g, stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL, a_ wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood I-rame with light members ❑
(if knomi) c. masonry load bearing walls
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good IN e. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14_ THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land 0 b. woodland
c. scattered buildings
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Ackerly Pond Lane is an historic , tree lined country road
that winds through farms, open Fields and orchards.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Random laid cut stone abuttments carefully stepped with
small bucks of granite along Railroad bank. Tracks cross
on steel girders.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1t. DAJ i OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: presumed to be 1844
ARCHITECT: -
BUILDER:
'o. HISTORICAL AND ARC'HITEC'TURAL IMPORTANCE:
This interesting masonry contributes to the ambience of
historic Ackerly Pond Lane.
11. SOURCES: R.C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976. Page 83
Chace . Map of Suffolk Count_y. 1858
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Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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1 loved to watch ,hunt Jerushy weave. Swish! would go the
shuttle through the warp, leaving the rag strip between the
strings. With a flip she banged down the reed to tighten it,
stamped on the pedal to change the harnesses and with a twist
of the wrist unwound more rag from the shuttle for the next
throw. Back and forth, back and forth it flew. She was so
quick! Three things al once. It was fascinating to see the rag
carpet grow, strand by colorful strand.
Many an elderly person now living in or remembering
Southold recalls the joy of watching Aunt Jerushy weave rag
carpets in the basemen: house on Bowery Lane.
Aunt Jerushy became quite a "character" in her late years,
a humorous and witty old lady. The last time she sat in the
loom was in the summer of 1940 at the Tercentenary Celebra-
tion of the Founding of Southold when many fine exhibits
were shown in the Mat`ituck High School Building.
Of course, people marvelled at her age, health and wit, and
I was amused to have: her tell me, "You know, Rose, Gladys
and Gertrude (her grandaughters) come to see me and they
bring their friends and they say 'This is my grandmother and
she's 98 years old, and she can hear and can see to read the
newspaper every day'. It makes me feel like a Museum piece!
They want me to live to be a hundred, and THEM what will
they do with me?"
A grand-nephew was very fond of her and often went to
see her. He was a Mortician and she always greeted him with a
sly smile and would ask, "Looking for a job, Sid? You'll have to
wait a while yet."
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Bowery Lane railroad bridge
R. C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976
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