MIDDLE ISLAND

Most of the following information is based on the 1858 Chase Survey of Middle Island.

If you have any information--pictures, documents, or stories--please e-mail us. at

pinfranco@aol.com or melanie@longwoodlibrary.org

Middle Island: A Historical Sketch

by Mr. Donald Bayles, local historian, 1999

An Excerpt from My Long Island

by Eleanor Ferguson, 1993

Recollections of Middle Island, 1920's-1940's

The story of Rainbow Ranch and what life was like in the Middle Island area

by Mrs. Ann Nauman

A)  Alonzo Chappel House

     The Risley Home - West of the Chappel home

B)  Artist Lake

C)  Petty -S. Van Horn House

D)  B. Gildersleeve House

E)  Corwin - Van Horn House

F)   Pfeiffer's General Store

G)  Pfeiffer's Pond

H)  F. Ruland House

I)  J. Edwards House

J)  D. Edwards - J. Gurvey House

K)  J. Swezey House

L)  E. Edwards House

M)  D. F. Edwards House

N)  J. Swezey House

O)  Pine Lake

P)   E. Sherry House

Q )  W.S. Swezey House

R)   B. Swezey House

S)   A. Smith House

T)   Hagen's General Store

U)   Family Cemetery

V)   Union Cemetery

W)   E. King House

X)   Middle Island Presbyterian Church

Y)   Schoolhouse #16

Z)   Swezey House

1)   Presbyterian Parsonage-Hudson House

2)   G. Ritch House

3)   D. Petty House

4)   H. Hutchinson House

5)   B. Hutchinson House

6)   E. Gildersleeve-Thompson House

7)   East Middle Island Schoolhouse (#17)

8)   J. Topping House

9)   N. Homan House

10)   J. Davis House

11)   W. Dayton House

12)   J. Dayton House

13)  Methodist Church

14)  J. Downs House

15)  Widow. Davis House

16)  J. Hurtin House

16a  Szuster Farm

16b S.W. Randall

17)  Leak-Monsell-Ashton House

18)  F. Hawkins House

19)  C. Nicholls House

20)  R. Lhomideu House

21)  D. Lhomideu House

22)  E. Overton House

23)  W. Bartlett House

24)  Richard Bayles House

25)  Randall House

Other sites:

The late local historian Thomas R. Bayles wrote a local history column for the Patchogue and Long Island Advance. Our latest project is to put up the hundreds of stories written by Mr. Bayles. These articles come from the 13 notebooks kept by Mr. Bayles. It will take us some time to complete this project and as of right now we have some articles from books 4, 9 & 10 completed. As the rest are typed up they will be added to the page.

- Ole B. Balling, the other artist at Artist Lake

- Old views of Middle Island circa 1900

-Views of the Middle Island Yaphank road.

- Chestnut Pound (Site of the West Middle Island School)

- Estonian Hall

- Martha Edwards House

- Views of Longwood Road

- Views of Middle Country Road (Rte.25)

- Blizzard of 1934

- Ralph Johnstone's Plane Lands in Middle Island

- Middle Island-Yaphank Road (County Road 21)

- The Middle Island Class of 1947

- The story of the Old Country Road

- Lewis Ritch, cutting cordwood at age 95

- West Middle Island class of 1932

- Threshing

- The case of the missing Brewster Burial Ground

- The Hurricane of 1938

- Middle Country Road

- JFK's speeding ticket in Middle Island

- Bartlett Road

- Fairytown

- Dutch Oven Inn

- Albert Bayles, raising chickens

- Half Mile Pond Road

- Flax Pond Road

- Bartlett Pond Park

- Prager - Middle Island Tool Rental

The Willard bartlett Diaries