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Rocklyn Avenue Lynbrook, NY |
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Ocean Avenue Lynbrook, NY |
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The Historical Society of East Rockaway & Lynbrook, Inc. |
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PO Box 351 - East Rockaway, NY 11518-0351 |
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psympson@optonline.net |
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History takes time. That most certainly is not only an oxymoron but also an understatement. HSERL has succeeded in making history yet again. Three Lynbrook houses have been placed on the New York State of Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic places You have read previously about the work of these three stalwart researchers and one indomitable photographer who put together portfolios of research that was unexcelled. Rebecca Schimmel, Lynbrook High School Heritage Scholar, Donald Krendel photographer and homeowners Ernest and Matilda Tarmin worked together to prepare and present the documentation necessary to make recognition possible. You’ll recognize this house because it stand out as a well preserved “old” house on Ocean Avenue. The number two success was accomplished by Art Mattson, HSERL Director and Lynbrook Village Historian, Donald Krendel and Tina Gonzales and David Byrne, homeowners. This house is equally old but it is hidden.. While other houses claim similarity, this one made it to the National Register. It is located on Grove Street. Bob Sympson, who actually initiated this project several years ago after viewing the Denton House in East Rockaway, wherein Betsy Davison vividly recalled many happy days of her youth visiting Delameter Denton. said “Why not get recognition for the beautiful old homes which are part. of the history the south shore especially East Rockaway and Lynbrook. He worked with John and &Cassandra Brannick and Donald Krendel to make it work yet a third time. This home located on Rockaway Avenue probably has as part of its footprint one of the first saltboxes in the area.
Thus these three Lynbrook homes proudly join the Haviland Davison Grist Mill, more familiarly known as the East Rockaway Grist Mill Museum on the New York State Register of Historic Places. |
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Grove Street, Lynbrook NY |
Historic Houses |
Henry Hudson’s Half Moon (Halve Maen) |
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Henry Hudson Who was Henry Hudson Anyway? And What Happened to Him?
In 1609 the Dutch East India Company, which had a monopoly on trade with the Orient and which wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, hired Hudson to renew the attempt on its behalf. They provided him with an 80-ton ship, the "Half Moon," and a crew of 20 -- a combination of Dutch and English sailors. He had been told to sail around the Arctic Ocean north of Russia, into the Pacific and to the Far East. The "Half Moon" sailed out of Amsterdam on April 4 or 6, and after a difficult journey along the coast of Norway , turned west and headed for warmer seas. Reports claim that Hudson had a trying time with the crew, which threatened to mutiny, but he persuaded them to help seek the alternative route to the lucrative spices. The quest for the North-West passage led first to the coast of Maine where members of the crew went ashore and cut timber to replace the mast of the "Half Moon." They fished and traded with the Native Americans but continued south to the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. After Hudson decided there weren't entrances to the passage he was seeking, the "Half Moon" sailed north to the mouth of the Hudson River. In early September Hudson thought he may have found the long-sought passage and sailed up what we know today as the Hudson River. In his quest he was ultimately stymied by the ice of the Arctic.
AND it was not until 2009 when a Dutch ship did, indeed, find the Northwest Passage as a result of global warming and sailed through the Arctic Ocean .
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