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The Big Duck is a duck-shaped building in Flanders, New York, 18 by 30 feet (5.5 by 9.1 m) and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall to the top of the head, enclosing 11 by 15 feet (3.4 by 4.6 m) of interior space. [1] The building was designed in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Maurer; shaped like a Pekin duck, it was intended as a farm shop as well as for publicity.
Aquebogue (/ ˈ æ. k w ə ˌ b ɑː ɡ /) is a census-designated place (CDP) roughly corresponding to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The CDP's population was 2,438 at the 2010 census.
Big Duck Ranch, also known as the Maurer Duck Farm, is a historic ranch located in Flanders, Suffolk County, New York. It operated as a duck ranch and retail store that sold duck products from 1936 to 1984. The principal building on the site is the separately listed Big Duck. [2]
* Jackrabbit Family Farms in Mount Vernon has also received $84,000 to install 504 hog heat mats, expected to save $60,000 annually. Longview Farm in Lake Andes received $26,000 to install 301 hog ...
During the 1880s, duck farms thrived in Speonk, but few survived past the turn of the century. The name Speonk was inspired by a Native American word meaning high place . An 1897 Long Island Rail Road catalog listed Speonk, noting that that name "certainly sounds like the call of a frog."
A Bundt pan and pre-made crescent roll dough will help you make a leftover turkey sandwich of epic proportions. Get the Giant Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich recipe. Charlie Gillette.
Crescent is a hamlet in the town of Halfmoon, New York, United States. It lies on the north bank of the Mohawk River in Saratoga County. Dismantling the Crescent aqueduct in 1915. Crescent was the northern terminus of an aqueduct which carried the Erie Canal over the Mohawk River. The original wooden aqueduct was built in 1825.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...