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Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
Photo: Main Street
Photo: Main Street
Beginnings: Even before John Ogden purchased lands in the Quogue area from the Indian sachem Wyandanch in 1659, settlers from Southampton traveled there to harvest hay from its broad meadows. They loaded the hay onto barges or rafts and poled them back to their farms in Southampton. By the 1790 census, there were only 12 families said to be living in Quogue, a shortened version of Quaquanantuck, an Indian word denoting a cove or estuary.
Photo: Main Street
Photo: Main Street
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Kabot, GOP recouncile; Malone to run for council
Spin CycleSouthampton Republican Supervisor Linda Kabot, dumped by her own party for re-election last month, will lead the GOP ticket after all. Her GOP-named foe, James Malone, Southampton Conservative chairman, declined the nomination late Monday and is...Tags: Local Elections, Republican Party, William Wright, Quogue, Primaries
Jul 21, 2009
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