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A tempting invitation:
Sail with me
Sail with me
waters of the internet (or would you prefer to surf ?)The Holiday Beach
created about in 1955, it is located 75 miles east from the City of New York on Long Island, in the Suffolk County, Brookhaven Town, hamlet of Center Moriches. (For details click HERE)
Obviously, this page, first created on October, 2004, is and will be under construction for ever.
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April 9, 1955, Late P.M. - Suffolk Co, L.I. - Center Moriches
We continued straight through the gate on the road named Old Neck Road South. On the right (west) were three blocks of lots called Holiday Beach Section 3 with Carriage Lane and Heather Drive heading west and ending across with Mallard Drive. "Madame Sturges claimed that she wanted to keep this part of the estate and that she signed the papers by mistake", explained Charlie, "but since we had it already surveyed and the streets were bulldozered last week, she agreed to keep the deal as she signed it." - Complete article
Summer 1955 - At the Holiday Beach
"As for the boating rights, there was no bulkheading or docks in Seneke Creek. Mr. Hewitt orally stated that you could drive a stake in the mud or the shoreline and attach your boat to it. Thus, this was the original oral grant of bathing and boating right at the Holiday Beach." from the testimony of Henry Bartel, "father" of the HBPOA. - Complete article
Some data on local history from my notebook are HERE
