04.27.2015 Community Were Southold mile markers really placed by Ben Franklin? There were a lot of things Benjamin Franklin accomplished in his life. The Founding Father invented bifocal lenses and the lightning rod, was a successful newspaper printer, served as...
04.04.2015 Community Event will raise funds toward preservation of Civil War banner The night before the 1860 presidential election, local activists marched by torchlight through Southold to show their support of Abraham Lincoln. One group of marchers was known as the...
04.03.2015 Community Southold Historical director stepping down in May Longtime Southold Historical Society director Geoffrey Fleming is stepping down next month. Mr. Fleming, who was appointed to the position in 2003, is leaving to become the new director...
09.17.2014 Community Meet the authors of Plum Island history book Meet the authors of ‘A World Unto Itself: The Remarkable History of Plum Island, New York’ between 4 and 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Brecknock Hall in Greenport.
09.09.2014 Government Debunking Plum Island myths, for once and for all Enough with the baloney. That could have very well been the title of the Southold Historical Society’s latest nonfiction publication, called A World Unto Itself: The Remarkable History of...
03.19.2014 Community Historical society awarded for book about 1854 Cutchogue murder An award of excellence has been given to Southold Historical Society by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network for its 2013 book “Murder on Lond Island: A Nineteenth Century Tale...
08.30.2013 News Memory of famed artists preserved with headstone In a remote Cutchogue cemetery, about four miles from the center of Southold Town, lies the grave of famed 1920s impressionist artist Irving Ramsay Wiles. But until recently, no...
04.06.2013 News Recalling a grisly crime from back in time Ever hear of the Wickham ax murders? If so, chances are it was through a North Fork native, not a textbook. The rarely told mid-19th-century tale concerns James Wickham,...
