Preservation Long Island

Black Poetry Day is observed each year on the birthday of Jupiter Hammon (1711–before 1806), America’s first published Black poet. Enslaved by the Lloyd family, Hammon lived and wrote at Joseph Lloyd Manor (c. 1767) in what is now Huntington, Long Island. There he composed some of his most significant works on the moral conflicts of slavery and freedom in the early United States.

Preservation Long Island will host a celebration of Black Poetry Day and Hammon’s life at Joseph Lloyd Manor Saturday, October 18, 2025. [Read more…] about Black Poetry Day to Honor Jupiter Hammon on Long Island

In 1624 Africans enslaved by the Dutch West India Company constructed a fort and a town on the southern tip of Manhattan Island.

Two years later, the remote outpost became the capital of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland. The settlement grew, and within a decade, its frontier pushed eastward onto what the Dutch called ‘t Lange Eylandt into present-day Brooklyn and Queens. [Read more…] about Dutch Influence in Long Island’s Art and Architecture

Black Poetry Day and the 313th anniversary of the birth of Black writer Jupiter Hammon, one of America’s first published Black poets will be celebrated with a free event on October 19th at Joseph Lloyd Manor, and will include tours of the historic house, a poetry reading by author David Mills and refreshments in the garden overlooking Lloyd Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island. [Read more…] about Black Poetry, Jupiter Hammon Being Celebrated Oct 19th on Long Island