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Jun 1
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The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington: Long Island’s Worst Maritime Disaster with Bill Bleyer

Author and researcher Bill Bleyer joined us last month for a talk about his new book, The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long...

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May 23
1 min

Community

Indigenous Perspective Paddle Tour 2023

Conscience Point is known to be the original meeting place of the Shinnecock and English settlers of Southampton in June of 1640. Join us...

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May 5
1 min

Lectures

Southampton’s Treasured Trees with Southampton Town Historian Julie Greene

Did you miss last week's Zoom lecture? No worries you can watch the recording now! Arbor day is a special day where we recognize some of...

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Plein Air Painting with Howard Rose - Summer 2023

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Apr 14
2 min

Community

Plein Air Painting with Howard Rose - Summer 2023

En plein air (French for 'outdoors') or plein air painting is simply, the act of paining outdoors rather than in a studio. In the mid...

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Sustainable Southampton: Environmental Design in Architecture – Cocoon and Threshold Houses

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Mar 14
1 min

Lectures

Sustainable Southampton: Environmental Design in Architecture – Cocoon and Threshold Houses

Architect and interior designer Nina Edwards Anker, PhD joined us recently for a virtual talk on two Southampton structures that partake...

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Feb 21
4 min

Community

Red at the Pelletreau Silvershop

April Gonzales joined our Board of Trustees last year and has been an amazing addition to our organization. She has taken a real interest...

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Steve Gould

Feb 14
2 min

Articles

The Art of Love

There is no denying that James Killeen was madly in love with one of the daughters of Captain James Green. Although the story of James...

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Shipwreck! The Tragic Loss of the Circassian

Steve Gould

Dec 27, 2022
3 min

Articles

Shipwreck! The Tragic Loss of the Circassian

In December 1876, the cargo ship Circassian was wrecked off the coast of Mecox Bay near Bridgehampton. Although she was initially...

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Dec 13, 2022
6 min

Community

Southampton: A Legacy of Life and Love

Please enjoy this write up that was done by one of our patrons, Marianne O'Donnell talking about her life and memories growing up in...

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Nov 1, 2022
0 min

Lectures

Shinnecock History & Art with Tribal Member Jeremy Dennis

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The Catastrophic Hurricane of 1938: Lost Lives, Beaches Battered, Neighborhoods Annihilated

Mary Cummings

Oct 11, 2022
6 min

Articles

The Catastrophic Hurricane of 1938: Lost Lives, Beaches Battered, Neighborhoods Annihilated

A Day Like Any Other After three days of rain, the morning of Wednesday, September 21, 1938, dawned bright and fair in Southampton....

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Mary Cummings

Sep 27, 2022
4 min

Articles

The Edward Foster Homestead

The house at 264 South Main Street, which local history traces to 1695, was part of the vast property holdings acquired by the Foster...

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Captain Barney Green’s House: 172 South Main Street, Southampton

Tom Edmonds

Sep 20, 2022
2 min

Articles

Captain Barney Green’s House: 172 South Main Street, Southampton

This distinctive mansion, with a Second Empire-style Mansard roof, was built in 1871 or 1872 by whaling Captain Barney Green. It was...

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Aug 30, 2022
4 min

Articles

Chalet de Imer

By Cynthia V.A. Schaffner Unique among Southampton’s early twentieth century residences was Chalet de Imer – a timber and stone masonry...

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Fore! The Golf Clubs of Willie Dunn, Sr.

Steve Gould

Aug 16, 2022
2 min

Articles

Fore! The Golf Clubs of Willie Dunn, Sr.

William “Willie” Dunn Sr. was a Scottish professional golf player, born in Musselburgh (outside Edinburgh), Scotland in 1821. Willie...

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Steve Gould

Aug 9, 2022
2 min

Articles

Dimon in the Rough

Historic 14 Flying Point Road This farmhouse on Flying Point Road has deep roots in the Southampton community. The house was built about...

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Laurie Collins

Jun 28, 2022
1 min

Articles

Dr.'s Home to CVS

Can you guess where this house was located in the Southampton Village? It used to stand on Main Street where the CVS is today. In 1822...

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Tom Edmonds

Jun 14, 2022
6 min

Articles

Ocean Castle on Meadow Lane

It is 1929, the year the economy will take a spectacular plunge, but William F. Ladd, too rich to fret over ominous signs, has set his...

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Morris Studio: The Unseen Collection, Photographs of Southampton 1892-1940

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Jun 7, 2022
8 min

Exhibits

Morris Studio: The Unseen Collection, Photographs of Southampton 1892-1940

Morris Studio: The Unseen Collection, Photographs of Southampton 1892-1940 was an exhibit we put on from August 22, 2018 until August 3,...

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May 10, 2022
3 min

Tours

Bike Southampton!

The Southampton Village Historic Bike Route is on the homeland of the Shinnecock, who continue to live and work on Long Island. We...

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