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' HISTORIC AND NATURAL DISTRICTS FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO.1b310.6-AV'7W
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD.
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO,
YOUR NAME: Town Qf S_outhold,/SFTTA DATE:November 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: mown Hall, Main Road —TELEPHONE: 916 765-18()2
Southold , TI.I . , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
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1. NAME. OF DISTRICT: _ Hamlet of Orient -,4010'3
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNICITY: Southold VILLAGE: nrient
3. DESCRIPTION: Orient is a peninsula which might almost be Called
an island as it is connected on the west to Bast Marion by
only a road on a dike beside an 8 ft. beach. Otherwise the
areais surrounded by water - long Tsland Sound on the north,
Plum Gut on the east, and Gardiners Bav on the south. The
center of the community is on the southwest shore of the
peninsula and once had a Steamboat dock. The only through
east-west road is N.Y.State Route 25 which is the oiiginal
Zings Highway marked by milestones at one mile intervals.
The terrain slopes from the bluffs a14ng Tsland Sound to
the inlets, marshes and sand bars on the south. Elthough
formed by the glacier and part of the Harbor Hill Moraine ,
there are veru few kettle holes in Orient. This is a rich
4. SIGNIFICANCE: Continued
Orient is a prime agricultural area with much
of the farmland owned by descendants of the original owners.
The area was settled in the 17th century, by 1700 there were
24 families living here . Early marine activity resulted in
the concentration of houses near the dock. This section of
the hamlet has been lasted on the National Register of
Historic Places since East of that there were about
25 houses along Main Road according? to Ti. M. Bayles, most
of these are standing today.
5. MAP: N.Y. S . DOT Composite
Orient and Plum Tsland quads (attached)
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b. SOURCES: T?.M.Bavles, Historical and Descriptive Sketches of
Suffolk County, 1 4.
Historic Orient 'Tillage , 4vsterponds Historical
ti oc e v, 1976.
7 . THREATS TO AREA:
BY ZONING ❑ BY ROADS C] BY DEVELOPERS ❑
BY DETERIORATION ❑ OTHER
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
8. LOCAL ATTITUDES TOWARD THE AREA: Strongly protective .
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Fort H.G. Wright on Fischers Island in the Block Island Sound
commanded the sound and 9ardiners Bay to the south. It was named in
honor of Ya jor General Horatio G. Wright, a distinguished Civil War
co=a-nder and Chief of Array Engineers from 1879-1884. The island has i
had hundreds of treasure seeking visitors, for legend has it that
the notorious Captain Kidd buried booty on Fiechers Island. To date
no one has found any sign of the treasure,
The strategic importance of the island wee first recognized
in 1704 when a signal beacon was erected on Prospect Hill. The beacon
was designed to warn tha city of Now London of a_: enecy attack. In
1898 the federal gover-nmert purchased a l.,,rge tract of land on the
western end of the island for ostablishnent of coast defense fortifications.
The construction of Fort H.G. T;riCht, which began with the erection i
of the gun emplacements in 1898, c,-!3t the got.vrnx-ent a total of about
8 million dollars. It becamo the herdquarters of the Coast Defense I
of Long Island, with Forts Terry, Michie, Trumbull, Mansfiold and Tyler
as units in the ccmmand.
Fort H.G. Wright served as the coast and heavy artillery training
center for Army and National Guard Units and lest Point Cadets. Of
all the installations within the outer ring of metropolitan defenses,
Fort H.1. 77right was the most self-sufficient and best organized.
The installation was equipped with its own electric power system
and telephone system, which was hockod into the "mairiand" system.
The fort had its own farms ^nd its c%vn trans portati,:r ,system.
In 1949 Fort H.G. Wrie:_t wa s termed inactive and was authorized
for sale. To date this valuable piece of property has not been sold.
Fort Terry, on Llum Island, was much biVer than the other "shield"
installations. Established in 1898 =d name: in honor of LL-Jor General
Alfred H. Terry who comm ndod Union forces during the Civil +ar,
the past was garrisoned by the Coast Artillery from the date of its
activation. During the , summer months units sent to Fort H.G. Wright
were sent in turn to Fort Terry for supplementary traini:_g in the
technique of Ccas tal' Defense oporatioris.
At the end of ';;orld i7ar II Fort Terry was inactivated, and
was maintained only by a small carctakir_g ,etachmc.--t frcm Fort H.G.
Wright. It remaine_' on this somi-active status until after .iorld
Czar II when all military persorrel were withdrawn from the post and
it was left in the hands of a few civilian caretakers. In 1952,
however, the Army Chemical C,-rps tock DOSessi= of the facilities
and utilize' them for research :=1 testing purposes. In July of
1954 the army turned over all its facilities to the Department of
Agriculture, which had contracted to V^ke c, ntrol of the rest of
the island at the same: time. The multi-million dollar Animal Disease
Laboratory pf the Department of AE;rieulture now occupies all of
Ftscbvare Island.
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