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Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
Photo: Beach Lane, Quogue
Photo: Beach Lane, Quogue
Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
Photo: Beach Lane, Quogue
Photo: Beach Lane, Quogue
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Jersey City Water Main Break Leaves Bayonne Dry, Schools Delayed
A water main break in Jersey City has left Bayonne residents with no water Monday morning.
The break is also snarling traffic around Route 440, which is closed from Communipaw to Culver Avenues because gushing water from the 42-inch pipe has begun to...Tags: The Associated Press, Hampton Bays, East Quogue, Bridgehampton
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A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Sunnyside (Staten Island, New York), St. Albans, Thomas Mitchell, Springs
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Kabot, GOP recouncile; Malone to run for council
Spin CycleSouthampton Republican Supervisor Linda Kabot, dumped by her own party for re-election last month, will lead the GOP ticket after all. Her GOP-named foe, James Malone, Southampton Conservative chairman, declined the nomination late Monday and is...Tags: Primaries, Republican Party, Local Elections, Politics, East Quogue
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