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The letter found in the antique desk marks a fascinating discovery for local historians and is stirring debate over the folklore and facts of the Southold family who owned the desk.
A Southold fixer-upper steeped in history has found shortly after being put on the market for $699,000 with Paul Loeb of Douglas Elliman.
Stella Prince was "a most unusual woman for her day." Now she's in the history books.
Town historian writes about Augusta, refitted in Greenport for the slave trade Southold Town Historian Amy Folk in 2017. (File photo) As Amy Folk writes in a new essay, “involvement in slavery did not end in the northeastern United States when the importation of slaves from abroad was banned by the U.S. in 1807. Nor did it end when New York State ended enslavement of people in 1827.” Nor did it end on eastern Long Island. Ms. Folk, the Southold Town historian and a member of a research group investigating the institution of slavery on the North fork, ...
The grave marker for David Hannibal at Cutchogue Cemetery. (Credit: Steve Wick) In this column, I have previously written about different aspects of North Fork history. These stories have explored the fate of the Native people who lived here, the Revolution as it played out across the region, the role of local soldiers in the Civil War, the presence of the enslaved in our early homes and on farms and how the past informs the present. This last theme — and how events in history, even in the recent past, influence current events — is very much an ongoing discussion ac...