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11.16.2022 Columns

Column: Research on local slave history bears fruit

Two-and-a-half years ago, three people who are serious about local history got together to tackle a subject few before them had considered important: the history of slavery on the...

10.21.2022 News

Take a tour of downtown Riverhead’s historic sites

Riverhead officials unveiled a “Downtown Riverhead Historic Trail” Thursday in a ceremony outside the Suffolk Theater. But if you’re looking for it, you might have to get out of...

09.09.2022 Government

Town may require developers to use transfer of development rights on height requests

Developers of proposed warehouse properties in Riverhead Town have been seeking to build up, rather than out, officials say, which often saves them money. As a result, Town Board...

10.08.2021 News

QR codes, actors to bring Riverhead Town’s history to life on downtown trail

Riverhead’s Landmarks Preservation Committee is in the process of creating a Historic Trail downtown that will give information about various historic sites in Riverhead, just by aiming a cell...

08.12.2021 Government

Agreement reached to allow demolition of downtown buildings for Town Square

Riverhead Town has reached an agreement with the New York State Historic Preservation Office to allow the demolition of three downtown buildings the town has purchased to pave the...

02.23.2020 Community

Old ‘Riverhead News’ sign found in office’s ceiling

When Riverhead architect Martin Sendlewski began doing some work on his Roanoke Avenue office earlier this year, he came across something he wasn’t expecting. “We demolished one of the...

05.04.2019 Government

Commission to try once more for Main Road historic designation

Riverhead’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is hoping to take a second try at getting Main Road in Jamesport and Aquebogue named as part of a national historic district.

05.24.2018 North Fork History Project

North Fork History Project: From growing divisions within Southold, River Head town is born

The Jamesport Meeting House, as magnificent a building as stands anywhere on eastern Long Island, was built in 1731 by virtually all the pioneer settlers of what was then...

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