George Smith – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 A house is built in the vicinity of 26 Cottage Court ../../../a-house-is-built-in-the-vicinity-of-26-cottage-court/ ../../../a-house-is-built-in-the-vicinity-of-26-cottage-court/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:26:13 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1660 c 1825

In 1845, a journal entry by Daniel M Tredwell describes the house as having been erected twenty years earlier by a doctor from Manhattan who was said to have been very rich and had mysteriously disappeared after three years. It was also claimed that a woman was murdered there sometime after that. Tredwell approximates the house is two hundred feet south of the Merrick Road. A private cemetery is on the north side of the road and to the west of George Smith’s homestead.

Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island

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Freeport Long Island History: Lost Freeport 

]]> ../../../a-house-is-built-in-the-vicinity-of-26-cottage-court/feed/ 0 Naturalist J P Giraud Jr researches from George Smith’s shop ../../../naturalist-j-p-giraud-jr-occupies-george-smiths-shop/ ../../../naturalist-j-p-giraud-jr-occupies-george-smiths-shop/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:13:02 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1674 c 1839 – c 1840

A journal entry by Daniel M Tredwell says Giraud occupies the carpenter and wheel-wright shop of George Smith of Raynortown for the purpose of collecting natural history specimens, and especially birds of Long Island. Tredwell personally supplies many of the specimens.

Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island

– Giraud’s book, The Birds of Long Island is published in 1844

The Birds of Long Island

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