MIDDLE ISLAND

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

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

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A) Alonzo Chappel House
 The Risley Home - West of the Chappel home
B) Artist Lake
C) S. Van Horn House
D) B. Gildersleeve House
E) H. Petty 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) Wid. Davis House
16) J. Hurtin House
16a Szuster Farm
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

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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