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•_ DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK 15181 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAMF: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE_ October 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Dain Rd. , TELEPHONF:516 765 1892
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): 1Mi l pstnne # 26M
2, COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Orient
3, STREET LOCATION: Main Rd- , smith side, past of Birdseye Rd.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ❑
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6. USE: Original: milestone Present;
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 5 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone [k c. brick ❑ d. board and batten El
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g, stucco ❑ other:
9. STRUCTURAL a_ wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls
d. metal (explain) 7
e. other Stop@ sot de-ap into ground
10. CONDITION: a. excellent b. goad Elc. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site I;p b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known l b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. tither:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY.
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
L landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land V b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential
h.other: Orient Harbor
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Milestone 26M is located on the south side of Main Rd. , (NYS
Rte. 25),. historic Kings Hwy. Marshland to the south, towards
Orient Harbor. Low density residential.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 18th century
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCJI*TECTC1RAL'1MPORTANCF:
The North Fors is very fortunate to still have these
old milestones. They are very interesting survivors
from a former ere..
As travellers' guides, these milestones marked the distance from
Orient Point to the County Court House in Riverhead along
historic Kings Hwy. , presently NYS Rte. 25.
21. SOURCES: Research by southold Town Historian.
".I. Forum, October 1964, p. 214.
Historic Orient Village, 1976, p. 14.
Summer of History, map section 3, 1965, Town of Southold.
Form prepared by Kurt .,Kahofer, research assistant.
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Milestone #26M, Orient OR-14
MAIN ROAD
South Side
Built before 1858 and located in "Hallelujah Park" north of
the Methodist Church on Village Lane, this house was moved
lea to its present location around 1905. The partial hip-roof
R treatment at the end of both main and dormer gables can
also be seen as a design element in later houses at (22b
and c). The expansive veranda shows in an early photograph
of the house at its present site. At its original site the house
must have sat on a higher foundation to make possible a
most unusual feature—a downstairs kitchen from which
servants brought food up to the dining area on the first
floor. An old cobblestone well has been preserved on the
northwest corner of the present property.
From t is point looking west,one can see that the King'. Highway surveyors had very little choice about where to
run theiNkad.We know frwu Griffin's Journal that a roid existed here,along which the first six settlers built their
houses, ap eptly all on tile. north side. From the lay of the land it seems reasonable to assume that the 1}resent
Route 25—ca d simply Main Road ever since the Revolution is very closely in the track of'the old country road
and the King's i hway which could not help but follow it. Not until 1818 was this road acquired, once and for all.
as property of the own of Southold. Commissioners Daniel and Joseph Terry and Elisha Mulford were responsible
for purchasing the rit is 'om individuals who were doing the maintenance work on various sections and charging
tolls for the use of ti rtions. ® However it was maintained and whatever tolls were charged. Griffin's Jour-
nal says that about 175 'Dr. Benjamin Franklin passed through this island. from Brooklyn, to Southold Harbor.
and in a carriage of his own constrilction. It was so contrived, with clock work or machinery of peculiar make. that
a bell would be struck at the termination of every twenty rods. By this means, the Doctor measured the distance
accurately—his object. no doubt, being. to ascertain tite length of the island-,and it seems a little strange that he did
not proceed to tite end. He stopped at lite inn of my grandfather, Samuel Griffin. at the Harbor, and who took him.
the following day. across the Sound to New London. The Doctor was on his way to Boston to visit his widowed
mother." ❑ It is regrettable that Dr. Franklin never got to see Orient, but ilis journey proves that the King's High-
way was passable by carriage as far as Southold, and probably was equally good the rest of the way. So travel the
length of the Island was something that could be accomplished by wheeled vehicles well over 200 years ago. It is
interesting, though, that until after the Revolution. Long Island had no int"rated postal services. Overton's "Long
Island Story" says that mail for Brooklyn. Queens, and Nassau Counties was delivered from New York. while people
in Suffolk County got their mail ferried over from New London. and goes oil to say that during the RUOILItlon. "a
Scotchman, named Dunbar, rode once in two weeks through the Island with the mail. Dunbar was not a public
official but undertook the work as a private enterprise, and people must have loved him for it in those trying days.
His route was east by the north shore and return by the south. The day on which he was due any place was called
post day'. In addition to the few letters and news papers a week old. lie brought all the news of the road over which
he had travelled." At this point in the road Dunbar might possibly have seen General Wooster's troops parading.
Augustus Griffin remembers that spectacle, but was too young to have taken note of"post day". ❑ There was a
time when going east from here was a memorable experience: a writer named R. R. Wilson who visited Orient in
1900 said; "This road is shaded almost continuously with patriarchal cherry trees,so that in May a snow storm seems
always to be travelling just ahead of you.so white are the illasses of tree tops on either side, and a ride along it is an
experience to be remembered for a lifetime." (Where are the snows of yesteryear'?)
z Here we have late 19th, early 20th century outward appear
t ances covering up an old house that has been extensively,
}" s if not almost completely, rebuilt since the first structure
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indicated on this site in 1860, at which time it was occu-
pied by two seafaring men and their families—Captain William
Hubbard, and David Edwards, a fisherman. The house was
7 r 1 still occupied by David Edwards in 1873. Tile building
lob appears to have been remodelled before file turn of the
century, virtually enveloping the older house.
Historic Orient Village
r - 14 1979
OR 14 �
7 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
This marker is on the old Post Road--a detour from Route 25.Royden Kuester
located it,partially buried, in the woods behind his home and reset it around
1964.
8 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
East of Long Island Railroad and opposite the East End Car Wash.
9 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
J East of Bay Avenue,in front of Micliael and Joyce Mattes'antique store"Vic-
torian Attic."
1 10 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
West of Marratooka Avenue and the Rally Gas Station.
11 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
On Manor Hill,just east of Wagon Wheel Lane.
12 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
West of Cutchogue Village Green and Highland Avenue,
13 M TO SUFFOLF C.H.
Fist of Key Food Shopping Center and opposite Cutchogue Town Garage.
14 M1TO SUFFOLK C.H.
F ,stsot Skunk Lame and west of Ted's Auto Body Shop.
.S M TO SUFFOLK C TL
hast of Peconic Lane, in Brier CIiff Sod F-rm.
16 M TO SUFFOLK C.H. + -
Opposite Triangle Park,between South Harbor Road and Route 25.
17 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
In front of the First Presbyterian Church's manse.
18 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
Boisseau Avenue and Route 48.
19 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
West of Soundview Avenue,opposite North Ford Condominium Motel.
20 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
East (.2 mile) of Albertson Lane.
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21 MISSING
22 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
East of Madison Avenue, behind John Zaleski's Farm Stand.
23 M SUFFOLK C.H.
West of Maple L--ne (Cleaves Point Estates).
i 24 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
Just eas6 r[.C==tary Road and East Marion Chapel. Has no marking.
25 MISSING
26 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
East of Orient Causeway; west of Latham Farm Stand.
-- 27 MISSING
28 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
Moved from old Post Road to Route 25.
29 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
About .1 mile west of Greenway East (Street).
30 M TO SUFFOLK C.H.
At Orient Point Ferry.