History Volume Contents
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Historic Sites Table of Contents
(an inventory database of over 100
sites in Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets, their historic
significance, photographs, and other links. Many of these
sites are linked to the people most prominently associated with
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About the Site
Histories database |
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Historical Sketches
(brief
"sketches," newpaper clippings, first hand accounts, etc., on
the "history" of Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets. It's more or
less an on-line "scrapbook." A companion volume focuses on the
people.) |
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Shaw's History of Fire
Place/Brookhaven (A
paper written by Brookhaven Town Historian Osborn Shaw for the
Fireplace Literary Club, and read by him at the Brookhaven Free
Library, October 5th, 1933. It is arguably the most
comprehensive history of Brookhaven hamlet.) |
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Hamlet People Database
(genealogies and historical
information of the families of Brookhaven and South Haven
Hamlets.) |
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Biographical Sketches
(short "sketches," news clippings,
first hand accounts, etc. on the people of Brookhaven & South
Haven Hamlets. Another on-line "scrapbook" similar
to the historical sketches section. They are linked to entries in
the Hamlet People database.) |
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Miscellaneous (material
that could not be conveniently categorized into any of the above
volumes.) |
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Records of the Town of Brookhaven
Before 1800 (a selection
of entries in the Town records of particular relevance to
Brookhaven and South Haven hamlets.) |
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Some Early Censuses
(these are actually in a separate
"volume" and consist of searchable databases of the 1790, 1850,
and 1860 censuses for Brookhaven and South Haven hamlets.
With the availability of on-line censuses, completion of this
volume is now a low priority.) |
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The McKeown Sisters at Valentine's
Brook.
This photograph is said to be of the
three McKeown sisters—Anna,
Elsie, and
Bertha, all of whom grew up on Bay Avenue in Brookhaven. Bertha,
the youngest, is in the foreground. Their parents
were William and Anna Knies McKeown. It is said that the picture appeared in
Harpers Magazine early in the 20th century.
The location is the "goin' over" of South Country road at Beaver Dam
Creek, looking west. |
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