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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.
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]
Eastport was long and best known as the center of Long Island's duck industry. [4] The first duck farms were established in the area in the 1880s. [ 5 ] In the first half of the 20th century it was the capital of the production of Long Island ducks , producing 6.5 million ducks a year from 29 farms going to market.
Since their inception the Ducks' home ballpark has been Fairfield Properties Ballpark, formerly known as Bethpage Ballpark (2010-2020), Suffolk County Sports Park (1999 and 2010), EAB Park (2000–2001), and Citibank Park (2002–2009). [4] The "Ducks" name refers to Long Island's duck-farming heritage (itself represented by the Big Duck ...
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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."
The last of the farms, the Jurgielewicz Duck Farm (founded in 1919) closed in August 2011 after declaring bankruptcy. At its peak, the 65 acre farm (which was a landmark on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road ) claimed to be America's largest free-range duck operation, raising 1 million Pekin ducks a year.
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