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Fort Pond Bay was first listed by name in a 1655 map published in 1680 by John Scott which makes note of a Montaukett Native-American fort on its banks. Early settlers in the area raised cattle and sheep on the bluffs above the bay. During the American Revolutionary War during the Siege of Boston British warships sailed into the bay in 1775 ...
The hull, foundering beneath the waves, was first secured near Montauk Point by legendary Montauk fisherman Captain Frank Mundus on his vessel Cricket II and Carl Forsberg, founder of the Viking Fleet, the largest fishing fleet in Montauk, on his Viking V, and was later transferred to the Coast Guard picket boat, which towed it into Lake Montauk.
The death sentences of both Tipton and Roane were commuted to life without parole on December 23, 2024, while Johnson was executed by lethal injection on January 14, 2021. Richard Tipton: 54 32922-083 Alejandro Enrique Umaña: 40 23077-058 Sentenced to death in 2010. Commuted to life imprisonment by President Joe Biden on December 23, 2024.
A 31-year-old man died after being caught in a rip current at a Montauk beach while swimming with his fiancee and a friend, New York police told news outlets.
The old York County prison has sat deteriorating on Chestnut Street in York for almost half a century without finding a new purpose. Through the years, many ideas to repurpose this sturdy ...
His projects included blasting a hole through the freshwater Lake Montauk to access Block Island Sound to replace the shallow Fort Pond Bay as the hamlet's port; establishing the Montauk Yacht Club and the Montauk Downs Golf Course; and building Montauk Manor, a luxury resort hotel; the Montauk Tennis Auditorium, which became a movie theater ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A Peoria man was sentenced Wednesday to decades behind bars for killing his wife of 40 years by drowning her in a basement sink. Michael Vorrath, 68, was found guilty in ...
The Navy appropriated almost all of Montauk during the war for facilities including Montauk Manor which was used as a dormitory. Torpedoes were tested in Lake Montauk. Ships and dirigibles docked on Navy Road on Fort Pond Bay. The Navy was to find Fort Pond inhospitable since it was shallow. Dredging was to contribute to problems with flooding.