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Large numbers of scallop shells have been discovered on locations around eastern Long Island, including Robins Island, Shelter Island, and Orient. [ 6 ] Beginning in the 1870s, the northern bay scallop fishery was an engine of economic growth in communities on and around the Peconic Bays, as well as other coastal communities along the eastern ...
Patchogue Bay is a lagoon [1] on the south-central shores of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.. Part of the Great South Bay, Patchogue Bay is a cove between the points of land known as Blue Point and Howells Point, and across which ferries run south to Fire Island.
Long Island Sound, highlighted in pink between Connecticut (to the north) and Long Island (to the south) Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York to the south.
Benedict Tide Mill: Tide mill: 1640s (erected) The Benedict Tide Mill, also known as Benedict Mill, was erected in the 1640s by Thomas Benedict. It holds a place of distinction in American history as the first recorded English mill in the New World. Located in Southold, it was the first mill on Long Island's east end.
Execution Rocks Light is a lighthouse in the middle of Long Island Sound on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, New York. [2] [3] [4] It stands 55 feet (17 m) tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds. The granite tower is painted white with a brown band around the middle. It has an attached stone keeper's house which has ...
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.
Steven Brown, 44, and Amanda Wallace, 40, appeared in court on Monday in Central Islip, where the judge ordered their GPS monitoring to remain in place. Jeffrey Mackey, 38, and Alexis Nieves, 33 ...
The harbor is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal.It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay by the Kill Van Kull, and to Long Island Sound by the East River, which, despite its name, is actually a tidal strait.