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Tag: Coe’s Neck / Coe’s Hook

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

1/1/1715 The Carmans build a homestead in Coe’s Neck

2/4/1805 Susan Carman (Bergen) is born at the Carman homestead

9/7/1838 Thomas Carman sells wood lots in Coe’s Neck

1/1/1839 Thomas Carman and his family return to Coe’s Neck

1/1/1839 Daniel Smith opens broom factory on Coe’s Neck

2/10/1841 Daniel Smith’s Coe’s Neck Broom factory closes

8/22/1853 Residents vote to change name from Raynor Town, Raynor South and South Hempstead to Freeport

1/1/1859 Map- Freeport, Coe’s Neck, Millburn, Baldwinville, Christian Hook, Rockville Centre, Merrick 1859

1/1/1869 George W. Bergen builds an estate in Freeport

1/1/1870 Map- Freeport 1870

1/1/1872 George W. Bergen and Susan (Carman) Bergen begin living in Freeport full time

1/1/1873 Map- Freeport, Millburn, Baldwins, Greenwich Point 1873

1/1/1873 A house is noted in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court

2/11/1878 Samuel Smith of Coe’s Neck perishes during the night

7/31/1884 Long Island Snakes

12/26/1885 Thieves steel tools from Samuel S Carman

6/21/1885 John J Randall purchases 100 acres of farmland

1/1/1887 John J Randall and William G Miller build matching houses

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

7/27/1890–7/27/1890 Beauties of Freeport

10/18/1892 Freeport is incorporated

5/1/1894 Thousands Of Human Skulls

1/1/1897–12/31/1897 C S Powell’s Woodcleft Poultry Yards in operation on Riverside Avenue

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

7/20/1898 George W and Susan Bergen celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary

7/31/1898 Long Island’s Turnouts,

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

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

12/9/1900 East Channel digging

3/23/1900 Benedict Poor House for sale

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

6/1/1907 Harpo Marx is a piano player at the Happy Times Tavern

7/5/1907 Clarence E Jones’ new motor boat is one of the best equipped around

1/1/1909–12/31/1916 Clarence E Jones is financial secretary of the South Shore Yacht Club

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

4/14/1912 Clarence E Jones rents a house for the summer

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

1/1/1920 First Presbyterian Church Cemetery is condemned and relocated

1/1/1920 David T Jones has an amateur radio station in Freeport

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