Tag: Islip

The Association of Public Historians of New York State

September 18, 2024
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Multicolored map of New York State from 1845.
1845 NYS Pincus Map. NYPL Digital Collections 1845 Pincus Map. NYPL Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-efd8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Association of Public Historians of New York State held their annual conference at Danfords Hotel in Port Jefferson this year, gathering public historians from all corners of the state […]

The LaGrange Inn on Higbie Lane

February 9, 2020
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Harry Higbie being interviewed at the Sayville Public Library with large binders of research on the table in front of him.
Harry Higbie in the Sayville Public Library with some of his genealogical research.

The LaGrange Inn was a storied stopping point along Montauk Highway from the 1700s when it opened for business with a Higbie at the helm. It remained a local landmark, […]

The Amazing Ludlows of Islip

May 2, 2019
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Photograph of Brigadier General William Ludlow in uniform
Brigadier General William Ludlow at the time of the Spanish-American War. US Army Corps of Engineers

Join Islip Town Historian George Munkenbeck as he reveals the lives and times of this family and, by extension, the social and political climate of late 19th and early 20th […]

Clarence H. Robbins: All About the Horses

February 12, 2019
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Black and white photo of Clarence H. Robbins on horseback leaping over a fence
Clarence H. Robbins in Brooklyn Life, April 3, 1907.

Clarence H. Robbins was a master of hounds and horses, a gentleman jockey and trainer, and a member of Brooklyn’s Gilded Age elite. Come explore this forgotten Long Island figure […]