09.28.2015 Community Meet Southold Historical Society’s new director Karen Lund-Rooney has made the switch up the road from Oysterponds to Southold. After months of conducting interviews, the Southold Historical Society appointed Ms. Lund-Rooney as its new director,...
07.17.2015 Community Trio of nonprofits keeping history alive thanks to grant funding Over 150 years ago, at a time of political unrest, members of the Mattituck Wide Awake club, a paramilitary group associated with the Republican Party at the time, marched...
04.30.2015 Government Historical society asks town to take back 18th century barn The Southold Historical Society is looking to get rid of a century’s old barn nearly 15 years after investing more than $50,000 in the structure’s restoration.
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...
03.18.2015 Community Historic mural among the rubble at Southold church site When fire destroyed First Universalist Church of Southold, the community lost not only a treasured building, but a significant piece of North Fork artwork as well. Amid the rubble...
03.09.2015 Education Historical Society’s internship deadline extended The application deadline for Southold Historical Society’s Bainbridge Memorial Internship has been extended to March 13. The program is open to high school juniors and seniors who live in...
11.29.2014 Community Photos: Southold Historical Society lights the tree The Southold Historical Society held its annual Candlelight Tour and tree lighting on the museum grounds in Southold Friday afternoon. All museum buildings were open and visitors enjoyed demonstrations,...
10.25.2014 Community Prostitution exhibit explores North Fork’s sordid past The story of Madam Pamn, born Bessie Kitchens, is just one element of a rarely acknowledged but conspicuous period of local history. That aspect of our past is now...
09.21.2014 Real Estate Real Estate: Take a tour of the Ann Currie-Bell House Founded in 1960, the Southold Historical Society owns more than a dozen buildings dating from 1750 to the turn of the 20th century, most of which sit at the...