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Maritime History

City Island And The America’s Cup

June 6, 2020 by Judith Berdy 3 Comments

City Island MapCity Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx in New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide.

City Island is located at the extreme western end of Long Island Sound, south of Pelham Bay and east of Eastchester Bay. At one time the island was incorporated within the boundaries of Pelham, Westchester County, New York, but the island is now part of the City of New York. [Read more…] about City Island And The America’s Cup

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Maritime History, New York City, The Bronx

Monticello Steamship Company

May 17, 2020 by John Conway 2 Comments

Monticello Steamship DockOnline auction sites regularly offer a number of collectibles — postcards, brochures, tickets, even china — bearing the name and logo of the Monticello Steamship Company of San Francisco.

Most of these items offer little information about the company, and the average collector would have little reason to believe that one of the most well-known enterprises on the West Coast around the turn of the 20th Century had any connection at all to Sullivan County, NY.

But it did. [Read more…] about Monticello Steamship Company

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Maritime History, Steamboating, Sullivan County, Transportation, Transportation History

Kesselring Atomic Power Labratory: A Short History

May 15, 2020 by Guest Contributor 4 Comments

Kenneth A Kesselring Site in the 1950s courtesy Town of Milton Historians Office CollectionIt was 71 years ago in May that the land for the Kenneth A. Kesselring Site began to be purchased to create the Atomic Energy Commission’s $20 million plant located in West Milton, Saratoga County, NY.

The Kesselring Site was built by the United States Government for the purpose of training nuclear officers and enlisted sailors to operate the United States Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. [Read more…] about Kesselring Atomic Power Labratory: A Short History

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: energy, Engineering History, Galway, General Electric, Maritime History, Military History, Milton, Saratoga County, Saratoga County History Roundtable

Elnathan Sears: Thirteen Months in Hell

May 12, 2020 by John Conway 4 Comments

HMS Jersey InteriorLate in the month of January in 1840, Elnathan Sears returned home to the town of Mamakating, then part of Ulster County, NY, after an exhausting trip to Washington, D.C.  There he had presented an impassioned argument to Congress in hopes of procuring the military pension he had earned as an officer in the Revolutionary War.

A few days later, on February 2, he was dead. [Read more…] about Elnathan Sears: Thirteen Months in Hell

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, Maritime History, Military History, Orange County, Sullivan County, Ulster County

A Brief History of Governors Island

May 11, 2020 by Judith Berdy Leave a Comment

1860 Map showing the Governors Island Manhattan and BrooklynAn island at the tip of Lower Manhattan provided a stage where a local military community participated in national and international events.

From its military beginnings as a colonial militia in 1755, Governors Island became a major headquarters for the U.S. Army and Coast Guard, making it one of the longest continually operated military installations in the country until its closure in 1996. [Read more…] about A Brief History of Governors Island

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: American Revolution, Civil War, Governors Island, Manhattan, Maritime History, Mexican War, Military History, New York City, New York Harbor

Gruesome, Lucrative: Long Island Whaling History (Podcast)

May 8, 2020 by Chris Kretz Leave a Comment

long island history project logoOn this episode of the Long Island History Project, we speak with Brenna McCormick-Thompson, coordinator of the Whaling Museum and Education Center in Cold Spring Harbor. You’ll hear how she works to tell the story of Long Island whaling through objects, historical records, and even the streets of Cold Spring Harbor itself. [Read more…] about Gruesome, Lucrative: Long Island Whaling History (Podcast)

Filed Under: History, Nature, New York City Tagged With: Long Island, Maritime History, Podcasts, Whaling

Annual Titanic Commemoration Goes Online

May 2, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Starboard view of the White Star Line passenger liner R.M.S. embarking on its ill-fated maiden voyage. April 10, 1912 Near Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UKEvery spring Staatsburgh State Historic Site, which includes a Beaux-Arts mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White and the home’s surrounding landscape in the Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park in Dutchess County, NY,  offers tours of the mansion commemorating the tragedy of the Titanic disaster.

This year, with the ongoing pandemic, the historic site has instead released some online content about the Titanic that can be accessed from home. [Read more…] about Annual Titanic Commemoration Goes Online

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Maritime History, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Titanic

Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibit in East Hampton, LI

February 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Water/Ways exhibitThe Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Water/Ways, which looks at how humanity has used water and how water has helped shaped civilization, is set to arrive at Clinton Academy Museum on February 29th for a six-week stay. [Read more…] about Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibit in East Hampton, LI

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Agricultural History, East Hampton Historical Society, Industrial History, Maritime History, Transportation, Transportation History

Whaling Captains Lecture in Southampton

January 16, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Captain Albert Rogers Mansion c 1890In 1893, Southampton historian William S. Pelletreau wrote that it was “safe to address almost any middle-aged man one might meet as ‘Captain’, for the chances were that he was one.”

Zachary Taylor, curator at the Southampton History Museum, is set to give PowerPoint lecture on sea captains who made Southampton their home, using research and photographs from the Museum’s archive on Saturday, March 7, at 1 pm. [Read more…] about Whaling Captains Lecture in Southampton

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Maritime History, Southampton, Southampton Historical Museum

Great Atlantic Liners Talk in Staten Island

January 9, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Ocean Liners provided by National Lighthouse MuseumBill Miller, knwon as “Mr. Ocean Liner,” is set to give a talk, Floating Palaces: The Great Atlantic Liners, on Thursday, January 30th, from 6 to 8 pm, at the National Lighthouse Museum in Staten Island.

Ocean Liners were the mechanic marvels of their time, with their top deck suites and salons to lower-deck steerage, the race for speed, the lavish interiors and soldiers onboard during wartime. [Read more…] about Great Atlantic Liners Talk in Staten Island

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Maritime History, National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island

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