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A popular festival occurs on Freeport's Nautical Mile (the west side of Woodcleft Canal) the first weekend in June each year, which attracts many people from across Long Island and New York City. The Nautical Mile is a strip along the water that features well-known seafood restaurants, crab shacks, bars, eclectic little boutiques, fresh fish ...
English: "On the Merrick Road", Freeport, Long Island, N.Y., 1909. Drawing or etching (not a photograph). Inset from a 1909 map of Freeport. But the property depicted appears to be the George W. Loft Estate, which was actually in Baldwin. Baldwin is just west of Freeport, but this was pretty far into Baldwin (today's Loft Lake a.k.a Loft Pond).
LIRR Station, Freeport, Long Island, N.Y. 1909.jpeg; Freeport High School, Freeport, Long Island, N.Y., 1909 (cropped).jpeg; Merrick Road, Freeport, Long Island, N.Y ...
Bill Bleyer, Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile, Newsday.com has a lot of good material on Freeport history, many facts we should incorporate. - Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC) The Freeport Historical Society had Civil War artifacts because Freeporters fought and died in that War.
Isabella Rogers, left, and Meagan Walsh pose for a photo inside of their new business, How Meta, 20 S. Chicago Ave., on Oct. 25, 2023, in Freeport.
Freeport Atlantic Avenue Nautical Mile: Atlantic Avenue, Freeport, south to Ellison's dock on Little Swift Creek, using private right-of-way between Miller Avenue and South Ocean Avenue Served the ferry to Point Lookout. Abandoned in 1921. Currently occupied by condominiums. n62 bus via Guy Lombardo Blvd. (abandoned in 2017) Fishermen's Delight
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute ( 1 / 60 of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).
This was to be done by constructing a 6.1-mile-long (9.8 km) cable-stayed suspension bridge from the Cross-Westchester Expressway (I-287) in Rye to the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135) in Nassau County. The proposed bridge was to cost $150 million (1966 USD) and had the support of Governor Nelson Rockefeller and many officials on Long ...