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The Connetquot River (also known as Great River) is a six-mile-long (10 km) river in Islip, New York. It is one of the four longest rivers on Long Island and is recognized by the state as a Wild, Scenic and Recreational River. It is particularly known for its brook, brown and rainbow trout fly fishing.
Swan River Inlet. From the 17th century onward, Patchogue was a major maritime center on the south shore. Settled initially by Native Americans, this center was favored by English colonists who traveled from New England to Long Island in the late 17th century, working the bay to harvest shellfish and finfish.
Near this site in 1814, Charles "Squire” Mott constructed a dam at Swan River and put a grist mill on it and, adjacent to it, a home. Mills like Squire Mott's, and later factories on Patchogue's three streams, established it as a manufacturing center on the south shore of Long Island earning Patchogue its first nickname, "Milltown".
The Nissequogue River is an 8.3-mile (13.4 km) long river flowing from Smithtown, New York into the Long Island Sound.Its average discharge of 42.2 cubic feet per second (1.19 m 3 /s) [1] is the most of any of the freshwater rivers on Long Island.
The Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge is located just east of the village of Lloyd Harbor, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, 25 miles (40 km) east of New York City. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
The crew on Riley Starks’ reef net fishing boat off Lummi Island pulled in about a dozen salmon in one catch, pulling about 75 fish total on Sept. 14, 2023. ... Long lines of rope run from the ...
Bay Shore station is a stop on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. There is also a team track for service to off-line freight customers, should the need arise. LIRR trains travel westward toward Babylon and New York City, and eastward toward Montauk. [21] The Bay Shore stop is a popular stop for visitors traveling to and from Fire ...
The Long Island Rail Road, which was completed to nearby Lakeland in 1842 (the depot was moved to Ronkonkoma in 1883), helped transform what had been a sleepy farming hamlet. The lake was created by a retreating glacier. Portions of its irregular basin are unusually deep for Long Island, but most of the lake is less than 15 feet (4.6 m) deep.