12.02.2019 Community ’Tis the season at annual candlelight tour in Southold The Southold Historical Society hosted its 2019 Candlelight Tour on the museum grounds Friday.
09.01.2019 Columns Column: Southold Historical Society’s slavery exhibit shines an overdue light To say that the institution of slavery that once existed on the North Fork has been overlooked by town historians and local historical societies would certainly be accurate.
08.21.2019 Community Historical society opens ‘Slavery in Southold’ exhibit In 1629, 11 Africans arrived in New York and were sold to the Dutch Colonial government in what is now Manhattan. It began an era of slavery in the...
10.31.2018 Community Southold Historical Society sells Main Road building The Southold Historical Society said goodbye to a building it has owned since 2011, but its memory will continue with another building on its grounds.
10.06.2018 Community Southold Historical Society welcomes new executive director Papers, photos, letters and maps. Deanna Witte-Walker is regularly surrounded by town documents that are hundreds of years old — and there’s no place she’d rather be. Artifacts from...
07.18.2018 Community Historical society unveils ‘A Toast to Long Island Wine’ exhibit The Southold Historical Society is presenting “Clink! A Toast to Long Island Wine,” a visual essay exhibition of the history of wine on Long Island. The historical society took...
03.09.2018 Community Volunteers needed for Southold Historical Socety help The Southold Historical Society is looking for volunteers to serve on committees and act as docents for the spring, summer and fall seasons.
10.08.2017 Police Online threat leads to closure of Horton Point Lighthouse Horton Point Lighthouse in Southold was closed Sunday due to safety concerns following threats posted on social media by a homeless man Saturday, officials said.
08.13.2017 Columns Column: WWI veteran Carl Vail believed in something larger than himself Carl Vail was an American story. He was born Aug. 12, 1895, on his father’s farm in Peconic. His father was Floyd Vail, and he farmed land that ran...
08.12.2017 Community Homefront exhibit honors 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into WWI Southold Historical Society’s current exhibit, “The Homefront,” commemorates the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I.
