History of Orient, New York on Long Island

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12 жыл бұрын

Located on the North Fork, Orient got its start from early Puritan settlers looking for land and freedom, and thrives today as what locals call "living history." Videojournalist: Erin Geismar (Aug. 2, 2012)

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@dianecrawford2598 6 ай бұрын

I grew up in Orient Point. I went to school in the old four-classroom school which was moved to make room for the present one. I attended the Congregationalist church, remember the Liberty tree, bought stuff at the Idle Hour on Sunday mornings after Sunday school. The memories I have! ❤

@lyndae.2055 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing...I was born and raised on long Island...I was born in 1952...Many nice memories

@jimsgirl1465 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I grew up on LI in the 50s & 60s. I loved the north shore. I have very fond memories of my childhood there.

@df5295 3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the Liberty Tree!

@JonBrooks105 11 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Nice to see the Webb house. My uncle George used to have me sweep and vacuum it when I was a kid!

@alanohms 3 жыл бұрын

We might be related lol. Im a cummings but im also a brooks. Elliot brooks was my great great grandfather i think

@JonBrooks105 3 жыл бұрын

@@alanohms Probably not too closely. My grandmother married Marvin Brooks, who was the master of the two-room schoolhouse in East Marion. He originally came from the Middletown, NY area.

@alanohms 3 жыл бұрын

Im a descendant of the brooks family of orient point

@jamesshenay3426 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up on LI... Hampton Bay's boy. Sister lives in the North Shore. Go Terry's Farm...

@wiseOldeOwl 8 жыл бұрын

At time 1:05 minutes... a Bernese Mountain Dog .. Any idea when that photo of the farm was taken ???

@lmyrski8385 2 жыл бұрын

If Orient was occupied by the British, I fail to see how they "stood their ground" against the British? I would think the description would be more likely that they were under the foot of the British. ALL of Long Island was occupied by the British, although troops were not in every village. Some they occupied for long periods of time, some they merely passed through on occasion. At the end of the war, Washington was fearful that the British might hold onto Long Island despite the peace terms. While the continental forces could raid Long Island, any attempt to capture it and hold it would have resulted in those forces being cut off by the Royal Navy. If I were the British, I would have held it and settled tens of thousands of Loyalists there. It would have been a dagger at the Americans' throat, able to shut off all commerce through NY, which would become America's greatest port, with quick access to the Hudson, an invasion route to the interior that could potentially sever the colonies in two. It also would have been able to shut down commerce in the Long Island Sound, perhaps America's greatest marine highway in the 19th Century. No wonder old George was so relieved when his spies reported the British were packing up.