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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOR-1A FOR OFFICE USE ONLY (?R lA BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO, 10310.622?* _ DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 K) 474-0479 NEG, NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: October 1987 YOUR ADDRESS:Town—Hall, Mein Fd TELEPHONE:5516 765-1892 Southold , L.I . , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Communi tv Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING; NAME(:S): 2. COUNTY: S (folk TOWN/CITY: Southnld VILLAGE: Orient 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public b. private ❑ 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS: 6. USE: Original: sea well Present: gee wall 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes X1 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone 1K1 c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATF,RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (it-kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls M d. metal (explain) e. other Stone retaining wall 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY. a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when'' c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Prequently repaired and rebuilt. 12. PHOTO:neg: KK 77-14a fm S/SW 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Orient pad . RiM njy 22 SIS■ ^p b ' V ro A a� 25 a _ ...- m ..- a 17 ORIE?V L _ HARBOR r :tom r 20 n .. ra IIP-1 $ GA RDIArER, OR lA r 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a, none known ❑ b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: wave action IS. 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: Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land M b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: marshes 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The Kings Highway {snow Route 25/]Wain Road) crossed this isthmus, originally nearer the L.I . Sound Beach. I& OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): A permanent road was built when the see_ wall was constructed . SIGNIFICANCE 19DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: d . ARCHITECT: BUILDER: --- In HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Historically there was a grist mill operating on the dyke between East Marion and Orient in 1759• It was removed at the time of the construction of the sea. wall. Light tires in two centuries storms tore through here and cut Orient off from the mainland . I. SOURCES-Hyde & Co. Map of Lona Island , 1897 . Pagans, Puritans , ?atriots , Warren Hall , 1975 . historical Review, Oysterponds Historical Society, 1959 . Long TsTand7 Trave—ler-Watchman "75 Years Ago ," 8/5/76 T H L i%l I Form prepared by Kurt K.a.hofer, research assistant. OR 1A Sea 'fall and Causeway CRi€nt 20 - (continued ) The sea wall and causeway were built circa 1898 and rebuilt and extended in 1401. They have been repaired many times since from storm damage . QUITE SO RIEF . OR lA The Orient Point Lighthouse, located in Plum Gut, marks washed throw h this beach to off Orient eight times in the end of Oysterponds reef. It was constructed in 1899 at a the last 300 years. For many years a tide mill with a huge cost of about $20,000, and is classed as a cylindrical tank or water wheel was operated at the mouth of Liam gond. The caisson type. Considerable difficulty was encountered in sea wall and causeway were built about 1898, and then re. erecTing ftf a lighthouse, and most of the base work had to be built and extend6fin 1961—ii a cost of$TSO. They have done at low tide. The tower has a fixed red light and is about been repaired many times since, following storm damage. 64 feet above sea level. The lighthouse was considered too This area has been in the path of many severe storms, which dangerous for women, so the wife of the keeper usually have caused considerable property damage. There were extreme roomed in Orient. blizzards in 1717 and 1888, which buried some houses to the Long Beach, a sandy peninsula extending southwest from second story windows, and the blinding gale of 1811 is remem- Orien-fPbint, forms a sheltered bay along the southern edge bered as the Christmas snow storm that wrecked many ships. of Orient. A deep well (668 ft.) drilled on Long Beach indi- The tornado of August, 1909 came close, but the hurricanes cated that bedrock was found about 660 feet below sea level, hit with full force. These were named: The September Gale of and overlying this for about 450 feet was the sand, clay and 1815, the 1938 Hurricane, the Great Atlantic Hurricane of gravel of the Mesozoic Era. The upper strata, about 213 feet, were attributed to the more recent glacial deposits of The Brown's Hill buryingground No. 10 on the istori- Pleistocene times. cal map contains about 54 graves and was used from around At the time of division of Oysterponds, Long Beach was 1699 until about 1766. Here, beginning with Gideon Youngs, left as common property belonging to all ma eitants many of the first residents were laid to rest, and some of the (male chauvinism had not yet been identified). Some people ombstone inscriptions were, according to an early historian, abused the privilege of using the land as a pasture and also "remarkable for their quaintness and a saintly humor . . ." cut down many of the trees. As a result, the Long Beach On July 10, 1845, Griffin made an entry in his journal Association was formed in 1774, with a committee to scolding the community for its neglect of this cemetery. "It determine who should use the pastures, what rents would is now fifty years since the inhabitants of this place have used be charged and what civic projects would be supported with it as a burying pla�e. A visit to this solemn spot shows the the revenue. This unique organization held annual meetings heartless neglect and inattention of the present generation, and flourished as a benefactor of the community for over respecting even common decency towards the ashes of their 170 years, holding its last meeting for final disposition of honored Christian fathers and mothers. The gravestones are funds in 1955. In the early days, rents of two to five pounds many of them broken and mutilated by time, or beasts, or per season were charged for pasture lands and beach rights. man. . . Is it possible that a people, professing civilization About 1865 the Atlantic Oil & Guano Company leased a and Christianity, can calmly sit and see the affecting desecra- parcel of Long Beach for 5500 per year to establish a fish tion of the selected resting place of the first proprietors of factory, utilizing menhaden (mossbunkers) to make ferti. their now wealthy and peaceful abodes? The means are lizer and fish oils. This enterprise was taken over by the assuredly abundant, but the heart is wanting. . . A genera- Atlantic & Virginia Fertilizer Company in 1875, and a tion or two more walking in the selfish steps of the present decade later it became known as the Orient Guano Company. one, will render this interesting depository of the dust of In the meantime, the lease rental had been raised to $1000 those progenitors as difficult to be pointed out to the per year. The factory went out of existence in 1895, and traveler as is now the sites of Babylon or Ninevah." the Mallard Inn (now delapidated), at the edge of the East The cemetery is in better shape nowadays since its mainte- _---_MMario -Orient causeway, was made from one of the build- nance was taken over by the Oysterponds Historical Society, ings moved by barge from this fa With money from which came into existence just a hundred years after the fish factory and other rentals, the Long Beach Associa- Griffin's comment. tion had funds to maintain a hearse-ambulance, provide care In I79U t'he cemetery across the road from the Congre- for cemeteries, monuments and many other civic projects, gational Church was started. In addition, there were estab- including the Liberty Pole and publication of a newsletter lished two private cemeteries along the road to Orient Point to servicemen during World War lI. The Association deeded (Latham and Terry) and two near Truman's Beach. Orient Long Beach to the State for the establishment of Orient Central Cemetary was fou-nd-in 1858 on land donated by State Park in 1929 and thus losts its source of revenue. The Barzilla Young. park is four miles long and offers excellent bathing and The old slaves' burying ground situated on a knoll of picnic facilities and is a refuge for wild life. The first road Hog Pond Farm contains the graves of Dr. Seth H. Tuthill, along the beach was destroyed by the 1938 hurricane. his wife, Maria, and 20 family slaves. The Tuthills wished The Lonl Beach Lighthouse was built at a cost of about to be buried with their former servants. The U.S. Census $17,000onin 18-" (Ffo— mark the shoal water and sand bar off of 1820 lists only one slave in Orient. Slavery was abolished the southwestern end of the beach. Until it was abandoned, here about 1830. its fixed red light guided ships using Orient and Greenport Historically, farming was always the principal occupation harbors. Popularly called ' Li t" because it stood above in Orient. The first farms of the 17th and 18th centuries were the rocks on spindly steel legs, so that water could pass given over to pasture, timber, and tobacco. Soon came the underneath when winds and wides were high, the square, need for hay and corn to feed the cattle and work horses. Mansard-style building was maliciously set afire the night Chicken and eggs were shipped to New York by boat. The "fallacy of the inexhaustible", which haunts us today, also m sBeach-Was known as Hard Beach in Colonial plagued earlier residents. From time to time the lumber days, and this narrow isthmus of sand and gravel formed the industry was an important part of Eastern Long Island's only land connec ion to Orient. During storms the sea has growth, but ship building used up native oak, locust, and Historic Orient Village. Oysterponds Historical Society. 1976 41 C:Htk!~iN'S loURNAL. 31 G ike, inname; llr I.ft it in 1 i l or 1773. Lt was it' this family family about Dile llulrrll'ud and twenty yearx. tud on 'i it real- Oysterl►nl►d�--so nals►elk by tllo first wllifcs uien who King-- possessed it—previously called by t.l►e ratives, as we are not have ,;h wik, Yeptat'acl', I'lld in IS3(;, 4 11 rk")lve of others its iull.lbital►ts, re-(111 it+f Ctied Orient," (si�;uil'a in;; as ye113ti; we imde144tan,i,"East,71 or 'aatel'11,") 1� a 11Unllllbllhl, What and is the extrell►e pont, of the nr,rfll bran►eh Of l.otlg then to Island. At the east ',)aul►ds of Last I11:=rion, formerly sly sup- know,, as Itueky Point, is a north and south narrow ante as beaell ; through this :wt one runs a elvek some two ast wits roils wide, Which is Crosse lr} 11 substantial bridge to lie into what Nsas formerly cullod Crook's hilard, whielt colt- re near tains perhaps sixty acres of good tilabie lana. For is now the last hundred years it has been nearly eql►ally divi- L'helift ded illto two tiu'nl� w: Svl►icl► are conceolient dwellings, the old with very tl►rivin,, families. The Tut'Aills and Tru- utioned. man; have been its proprietors for tl►e above Men- harbor terns. The c:rt:ck 108 the water of the harbor east by into a paid called Dant 1'on►l, wllieh, o11 the uurth, is With by bo►lnded sly al►llrrtmv beach,Ilivitlil►� itfroul thl �rnllirl. red and T166 beach, of about three rods Nvide al-,d out Cil llty 1656)by rolls long, is the only lalld link which smites Orient to >ut 1E;GU. the main land of Lone, Island. Ll t'Lis pond, w diel► is place, contains about sixty acresis a rock some feet above , 1 yy carr; tide water and olt wl►icl► is @Iliraved tl►e initials of oil 13u0 Samuel L'rook, thus :--"S. C.-1745.' the ti► st ,►th:ul 1�'. we•suppose,llo owned these lands,bounded on tl,e east lerentiall and south and west Ly lilli►l harl,or,and on the north by ' of that the Sound. Over a sand beach, you pllsd about one v Augustus Griffin' s Journal 1 C""' 1_, 32 GRIFFIN's JOURNAL, hundred rods to the foot of Brown's llills wlaiclr ter- six ) minates this ►emnsta a ()rr t newest. fill ] About wix miles West of it C.1.161 0-slvrl►ond wuu'. Bead�h, i$ another batch called Alhat11uniaalue L'carh, }curt; al►out fifteen rodt wide all" e'iglity r•,►,Is 141111;, lmuu►lcd ishil, ort the north by the Somid, 4111 [Ile -1-11111► 1I1' at large Tluv�- pond, WhiCh car►lrtjes jilt() tilt: 1'eedr11ie Aly by What in a dal called! Alill Creelc, at the west extrurne point of Alher•- wah, sons faran. Situ:lted in the middle of a plain lot (if land Uf Silae two I3d:cbe'8 fUrnr, dill Phimb Lila udl, was a rock ill' rather a 0110 regular tory—in diameter about twclvu feel, and in quit. buil,ddt, perhaps trine fret. Un the top of this rock, on stun. o11e edge, wua lodged another riot quite as 1111-g , knit the more round. The place cur wiliell this une rested with scat, itai iunnenNe wd jnlat, 1%118 !rut nu►►•d: taut t1Vd'nty-two nort ineltd�;l 1;eiN, matin the extreane edgo, to the eye, it nine looked as if a small effort might dislodge it frum its and resting place, wl►ere, for aught we know, it bad been thro since the day of the Creation. It was so when Plumb land Island was Nought of the nativerz,in 1643G,and remained nect thus ant" the war of 1812. While Commodore hardy .All was stationed in Gardiner•'s Play, in 1`415, a minkl►er of east officers and !nen went on sllore With crom,bars and mus Wedges, and, %vith miteld effurt, Succeeded) in removing Tl it. We regret their wuccd-ss. It tilaould have been left Plat in its ancient resting place as a marvellous work of.Na- earl tune- Itw destruction kic-,fited no aIle,while, in its rain- abor gular position, it !night have been the admiration of fam thousands. Silas Beebe, at this time, had been dead AugListus Griffin' s_Journal 1 357 Orient-East Marion sea wall/causeway (attachment) OR- 1A LONG AGO ON LONG I SLAND ' ..1y, J. ERNEST WERLY � gg Rk k"RIP \' �~ x tom,; ^-yam_ e`:���•�^`�--� BT.lE21Y STAGE LINE from WENT to GREENPORT With extension in IF44 of the Long Island Pail- road to Greenport, came a ne%v cra in passenger travel and mail delivery. The stagecoach gradually passed into Hstory. Hnwever on the highway continuing East from Greenport, the horse-drawn vehicle continued to hold sway" until outmoded by the automobile. One of these vehieles, possibly remembered by a few old-timers, was driven by Bert Tabor, a Civil %A'ar veteran who owned and operated the mail stage, on the six-mile stretch between Orient and Greenport. The stagecoach was a long wagon with .tour seats, accommodating the driver and 11 passengers. It has a top,and side curtains which could be lowefed on rainy days. It also had a rack at the rear for packages and luggage. The coach was drawn by a pair of horses.Leaving Orient at 10 a.m. with the mail and passengers, it stopped at East Marion at 10:30, and arrived at Greenport to meet the train from New York City. Tabor delivered his passengers and mail; then carried the incoming mail to the post office, and while letters for Orient and East Alarion were being snrwd, hr raid shopping and other errands for his neirlihors back hone•. After pickinc up the rriurn mail acid any possihlr pas�scngrrs, he climhrd hark to 1he driver's srm again_ In addition to his siageroach dillies, fieri Tahr-r aaied as town cryer Into the turp of the century. In Sempternher of 7401, he shouted the sad news of President Willigm McKinley's assassination. L . I . Daily Press , 7/32/60 . 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P.�S • 5 i kr ~ ��� 4 +•,`a ;t + f 4yY 7 i6 8 "CYORY �kC i� Ifl GC=:) 3,,> 3,k �Q e, •I ♦k Irl I •� ac ■ VI r 9 15 17 i st ' ?1lt1Z\6 Waaekl 13 +•�.r' { ,i It 15 13 3% x , � r• , I-igYE�,TER I5LAMD! T� t_r 12 15 33w tJ RK J� r� 15 10 11 A 4 7 9 13 3�z t� aye 1i•'r'-•urx. `= ,<�....�,� ,�. ,,, r 15 } Map of T1onc Island t{) i4 f3 Hyde & Co. r7 IA- ' �, r9 t' i � .1897 . t4 A•��• 4 —� 5 11 ' 'r ty [� ► It.I JI} 1t7 iR T6 Ir r. 4bRam aA e t` t } r 0­ A l�#� i� 'C' 1 rL 5 .biz 1Fi � t to � `< R ih t � P .�yyF•y. r � ..,. ` •f�� t • 1 � * �1 j .rY�` JY � �4 ti ` _.. � !.'t .. � ,'i.F, � r 1 y • 1 • s�� � • • • • • • i • O R 1_A r . On the Road to Orient, L. I Sandy road to Orient in 1907 Trumans Beach is on the left. A cement retaining wall on L.I .Sound side can be seen at left of photo. The wooden wall on the Creek (Bay) side was to keep high tides off the road . Postal card in collection of Mrs. Robt. C. Reeves Sr. Orient-East Marion sea wall/causeway (attachment) OR-lA f Ae If t, Approach to Orient Suffolk County's Great Townships , 1939. Orient-East Marion sea wall/causeway (attachment) OR-1 jv�7 Photo by Judy Ahrens Shoring Up The state Department of Transportation project to stop erosion at the East Marion causeway is under way. Work calls for a three-foot excava- tion and emplacement of stone and material to held the bank. Comple- tion is expected in the ! rin . Suffolk Times , 11/12/87, P. 13a.