List of New York State Historic Markers in Suffolk County, New York
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This is an incomplete list of New York State Historic Markers in Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

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Babylon, Town of

  • BABYLON TOWN HALL
    Babylon Town Hall
    Babylon Town Hall, also known as Town of Babylon Old Town Hall, is a historic town hall located at Babylon in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1917 and is a -story Classical Revival style building with a low hipped roof. It is rectangular in shape, approximately 58 feet long and 54 feet...

  • Location: 47 West Main Street
    New York State Route 27A
    New York State Route 27A is a state highway extending from Massapequa in Nassau County to Oakdale in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York in the United States...

    , Village of Babylon, New York
    Babylon (village), New York
    Babylon is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 12,615 at the 2000 census.Its official name is The Incorporated Village of Babylon...

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  • Inscription: Built 1917-1918. Seat of Town Government until 1957. Served as Town and District Court House from 1918 to 1979.
  • Erected in 1986

Huntington, Town of

  • BRINDLEY FIELD
    • Location: Huntington, NY
    • Erected By: World War 1, U.S. Army Signal Corps, aviation section, flying training field, June 1918 - May 1919 Erected 1974

  • CLAY PITTS ROAD
    • Location: Road unknown as of 2005-OCT10, East Northport, NY
    • Inscription: Road also called "Water St." for river which once ran here. Later called "Avery Road" for early local farmer.
    • Erected By: East Northport Chamber of Commerce 1999

  • CONSTITUTION OAK
    • Location: Town Green of Huntington, NY
    • Inscription: Dedicated on the 200th anniversary of New York States Ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
    • Erected By: Town of Huntington 1988

  • HUNTINGTON'S EARLIEST CHURCH
    • Location: Southwest corner of New York State Route 25A
      New York State Route 25A
      New York State Route 25A is a state highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. It serves as the main east–west route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, running from the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Queens at its western terminus to...

       and Spring Street, Huntington, NY
    • Inscription: Stood on this corner 1665 to 1715 when it was sold for 5 lbs. and 2 shillings.
    • Erected By: Town of Huntington, Erected 1965

  • IN MEMORIAM
    • Location: Huntington, NY
    • Inscription: On Aug. 16, 1918 an aircraft accident at this site claimed the lives of 2nd lts. C.S. Gideon & Harold Maxson stationed at Brindley Field.
    • Erected By: The town historian

  • NORTHPORT RAILROAD STATION
    • Location: Northport (LIRR station)
      Northport (LIRR station)
      Northport is a station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at the corner of Larkfield Road and Bellerose Avenue, north of Suffolk CR 11 in East Northport, New York.-History:...

       parking lot, East Northport, NY
    • Inscription: Original station was 1½ miles northwest which remained open from 1867-1899. This station opened 1873-Also called Northport.
    • Erected By: East Northport Chamber of Commerce 2000. In Memory of Frank C. Becher.

  • OLD COUNTRY ROAD
    • Location: Melville, New York
    • Inscription: Samuel Ketcham's hollow southern boundary of the first purchase from the Maitencock Indians in 1653.
    • Erected By: New York State Bicentennial
      United States Bicentennial
      The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic...

       Commission, 1976 and the Town of Huntington

  • SITE OF CENTERPORT (UPPER) MILL
    • Location: Centerport, NY
    • Inscription: Built by Sylvanus Townsend in 1774, replaced an earlier mill build further south in 1674."
    • Erected By: New York State Bicentennial
      United States Bicentennial
      The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic...

       Commission, 1977 and the Town of Huntington

  • SKIDMORE HOUSE
    • Location: Northport, NY
    • Inscription: Oldest House in Village of Northport. Built by Bryant Skidmore in 1761 near Great Cow Harbor and Red Hook.
    • Erected By: New York State Bicentennial
      United States Bicentennial
      The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic...

       Commission, 1977 and the Town of Huntington

Islip, Town of

  • ISLIP DEPOT
    • Location: Islip, NY
    • Inscription: South Side Railroad 1867-1876. LIRR acquired 1880. 2nd Track 1908. Station house south side 1868-1950. North 1959. Restored 1997.
    • Erected By: Historic Society of Islip Hamlet

Brookhaven, Town of

  • HISTORIC FLIGHT
    • Location: Middle Island, NY
    • Inscription: Ralph Johnstone
      Ralph Johnstone
      Ralph Johnstone was a pioneering early aviator who died in a crash.-Biography:He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1886. He started as a vaudeville trick bicycle rider. With a signature finale of performing a mid-air forward somersault. He became a Wright exhibition team pilot...

       landed near here on October 27, 1910 after wind forced his plane backwards from Belmont Park Altitude record of 8471 ft.
    • Erected By: Town of Brookhaven


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