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Tag: Raynor South / Raynorville / Raynor Town / Raynor’s Neck / Washburn’s 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

1/1/1659 Edward Raynor settles in Washburn’s Neck

1/1/1783 Daniel Raynor builds a homestead on South Main Street, opposite Mill Road

1/1/1784 Washburn’s Neck becomes known as Raynor South

1/1/1790 President George Washington visits Raynor South

1/1/1795 Jacob Bedell builds the Bell Oaks house in Raynor South

1/1/1829 Daniel Raynor purchases the saw and grist mills on Mill Road from Joseph Swezey

1/2/1837 Ship Mexico wrecks on east end of Long Beach Island, 116 freeze to death, Raynor Rock Smith of Raynor South rescues 8

1/1/1839 Naturalist J P Giraud Jr researches from George Smith’s shop

5/10/1843 Captian Thomas Raynor makes regular runs between Raynor South and New York on the sloop Native

1/5/1846 D Wesley Pine is born in Raynor South

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

6/3/1858 Advertisement: Carman & Raynor Lumber

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

1/1/1860 The Southards build the Hillcrest house on their farm

1/1/1870 Map- Freeport 1870

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

1/1/1882 Daniel Raynor cuts streets through his farm and sells it in smaller parcels

1/1/1885 The Bell Oaks House is moved

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

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

3/12/1890 Plans for Atlantic Avenue to continue west from Whaley’s Lane through Baldwin

10/18/1892 Freeport is incorporated

11/19/1893 An Apparition In Freeport

11/20/1893 All Freeport After a Ghost

3/15/1894 Resolution to deepen and widen Freeport Creek

8/13/1900 Severe Thunderstorm in Freeport

11/20/1901 Trolley line construction nears completion

8/13/1905 A long summer anticipated for Freeport

8/7/1906 Burgulars Wreck Building – Blow Open Safe and Demolish Ferry Structure – Get Only $50

10/19/1916 Turk Island is no more