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 "Stony
Brook Hotel. James Ayers Prop." On the corner where 25A turns to Setauket.
The cafe sign says "Welz & Zerweck Export Beer." Right: Mailed in 1909
- a similar photo view is here.
An 1925 ad is here, and a similar vintage here. The hotel,
minus the top two floors, became the Melville's first Carriage Museum in
1952, and was replaced in 1968. |
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 Left:
"D. T. Bayles & Son, Stony Brook, Sawing, Plaining and Moulding Mill."
These buildings were across the street from the Stony Brook Hotel. The
card was printed between 1907 and 1918 by R. S. Feather of Smithtown. Right:
the Bayles store on Main Street. The Hotel can be seen at the end of the
street. |
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"Stony Brook Hook and Ladder" This is not a professionally published card. It was printed after 1907. That makes sense since the Stony Brook Fire Department was not formed until after the fire in 1909 at the Bayles and Son Lumber Yard. The rebuilt structures are now the History Museum, carriage storage and store across from the Carriage Museum on 25A. |
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 Left
"Lake" and right, "The Mill Pond, Stony Brook" mailed in 1909. The bridge
in both views went from the mainland to the small island where there was
once a house. The island is labeled "Low Island" on some old maps. The
bridge is gone. |
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"The Mill, Stony Brook, N. Y." The addition at the back and the cover to the wheel were not original and were removed after Ward Melville purchased it in 1947. It operated a mail order business until about that time. Mailed in 1913. |
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 "The
Old Grist Mill, Stony Brook" Published by Zimmerlein's Pharmacy after 1940.
Right: Photo, taken in March, 2002, shows the mill without the addition
at the back, but otherwise very much the same. For a picture showing the
front of the mill in August of 2001, click
here. For an enlargement of the sign, click
here. |
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 Left:
"Road by The Creek,
Stony Brook" looking towards the mill from the Head of the Harbor side.
The steeple probably belongs to the Episcopal Church. Right: "East
Farm" 1909 - it's actually on the same side of the creek as the path at the
left. See an architectural article. |
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 Looking across the
mill creek towards where the Hercules
pavilion is now located. Right:
two differently cropped cards of same view merged. Right: "'Mouth of the
Creek,' Stony Brook, N. Y." mailed in 1915. The buildings along this section
of Main street were all either moved or torn down. At the right is the
old Edward Oakes home and barn. |
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 At
the left is a photograph of Hercules in his pavilion,
taken in May, 2002. The plaque says, "Hercules; Figurehead from U.S.S.
Ohio; Built at Brooklyn Navy Yard 1820; Dismantled at Greenport 1884; Presented
by Cornellius N. Van Pattern and Thomas L. O'Donnell." Behind it is the
whale boat shown at right when it was next to the old Suffolk Museum building
(now the Garden Club Exchange). It was built in 1871 for the U. S. S. Polaris.
The card back says, "The Polaris sank in 1873, leaving the Whale Boat exposed
in the Arctic elements until 1906, when Admiral Peary brought it back..."
For more on Hercules at Good Ground (Hampton Bays), click
here. |
