04.12.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: When was Cutchogue’s Old House built? How old is the Old House in Cutchogue? This handsome home, which sits on the Village Green, has long been believed to be part of Budd and Horton family...
03.29.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: Slavery on Shelter Island, a story not hidden away As the hot August night wore on in the attic of the old house, she decided she couldn’t take it anymore. It was growing more stifling by the minute...
03.08.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: Slavery, an ignored part of our history They were here, nearly from the founding of Southold Town in the mid-17th century. Their presence has not been widely discussed or been part of the conversation in...
02.22.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: So, who was really here first? This is an imaginary conversation with a member of a ‘first’ family whose roots in Southold Town — which originally included present-day Riverhead — date back to the town’s...
01.11.2018 North Fork History Project North Fork History Project: Before anything else, there was ice In the beginning, there was ice. Eighteen thousand years ago, a massive wall of ice 300 feet thick extended south from the Arctic to what is now New Jersey....
12.21.2017 North Fork History Project About the North Fork History Project What do we know about our history? Native people — who got the name “Indians” from Europeans — lived on the North Fork for perhaps 10,000 years, arriving from...
09.26.2016 Libraries Greenport man’s vast genealogical database donated to library In the margins of hundreds of pages filed in binders, Greenport native Bill Hulse took copious notes and tucked them away in boxes of old family photos, newspaper clippings...
