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Tag: Coe’s Great Neck

11/13/1643 John Carman and Robert Fordham negotiate sale for 64,000 acres of land on Long Island, to become Hempstead

11/16/1644 Director General William Kieft issues a patent granting John Carman and settlers rights and title for Hempstead

4/1/1644 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead

1/1/1647 Hempstead is divided among sixty-plus original freeholders

3/13/1890 Funding for bridges along Atlantic Avenue to cross Emory Creek and Milburn Creek

3/29/1890 William G Miller purchases 200 acres of farmland from Samuel S Carman

6/5/1890 Randall & Miller purchases farmland from Samuel S Carman- to become Woodcleft

7/27/1890 Plans announced for Randall & Miller’s Woodcleft area

10/18/1892 Freeport is incorporated

1/1/1897 Daniel B Raynor purchases land from Randall & Miller

10/19/1897 The steamer boat Eagle suspends service from Woodcleft Canal to Point Look Out for the season

8/27/1897 O. W. Humphrey begins building a house on Ocean Avenue

1/1/1898 Woodcleft Canal dug by Randall & Miller

9/16/1898 Plans announced for O. W. Humphrey’s Grove Park Hotel on Rose Street

5/26/1899 James Dean purchases O. W. Humphrey’s house on Ocean Avenue

1/1/1900 William G Miller builds house on Ocean Avenue and moves there with his family

12/9/1900 East Channel digging

6/9/1900 Grove Park Hotel on Rose Street begins its first season

8/30/1901 Woodcleft Inn again Sold

1/1/1903 Burglars enter William P Miller’s building site to steal tools

6/29/1903 Marosa’a Body Found in Canal at Freeport

7/17/1905 William G Miller Ocean Avenue residence robbed

8/13/1905 A long summer anticipated for Freeport

1/1/1910 Landscape; view of northern Woodcleft section

1/28/1910 Georgina Wortman house moved from Central Avenue to Miller Place

10/7/1910–10/7/1910 Tenants move from house of Marietta Miller (Wetmore) on Miller Place

1/10/1911 Marietta Miller (Wetmore) marries Frank J Wetmore

11/13/1911 Burglary at Freeport

4/4/1911 Tenants of house on Miller Place move to other house nearby owned by Marietta Miller (Wetmore)

4/7/1911 Marietta Miller (Wetmore) sells old homestead on Miller Place

6/14/1912 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore build house on Southside Avenue – the street is extended from Miller Avenue to South Long Beach Avenue

7/12/1912 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore have a daughter; Mary E Wetmore

10/27/1916 Isabel T Jones entertains bridge club at 262 Southside Avenue

6/9/1916 Marietta (Miller) Wetmore and Frank Wetmore have a daughter; Martha R Wetmore

7/21/1916 Shark In Woodcleft

8/16/1925 New Home Development Underway in Southern Section of Freeport

1/19/1935 Frank J Wetmore Jr badly hurt

1/20/1935 Frank J Wetmore Jr dies

4/17/1938 Clarence E Jones dies