Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay
a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby. 6497.

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      town (urbanized township), Nassau county, southeastern New York, U.S. It extends from the north to south shores on central Long Island, and comprises more than 30 incorporated villages and unincorporated communities. Villages include Massapequa Park and Oyster Bay Cove (both incorporated in 1931). Important unincorporated communities are Oyster Bay “village,” Jericho, Massapequa, Hicksville, Plainview, and South Farmingdale.

      The first settlers, led by Peter Wright, Samuel Mayo, and the Reverend William L. Leverich, arrived at Oyster Bay Harbor from Rhode Island in 1653. The first town meeting was held in 1660, and the town was granted a governor's patent in 1667. During the American Revolution, Raynham Hall (c. 1740, now a museum) served as British Army headquarters, and Sally Townsend, who lived there, provided information that led to the capture of Major John André (André, John), a British spy. By the early 19th century the town was essentially rural, although the whaling industry flourished. After the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road (Long Island Rail Road Company) in 1836, followed by a trolley car line at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of large estates were built by financial and industrial tycoons. Oyster Bay gained fame through its most notable resident, President Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Theodore), whose three-story mansion “Sagamore Hill” (built 1880 at Cove Neck) became the summer White House (1901–09); it is now a national historic site. The Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary (a bird sanctuary) and Trailside Museum are nearby, and Roosevelt's grave is in the adjacent Young's Memorial Cemetery.

      The town of Oyster Bay continued to be almost entirely rural-residential until it experienced a pre-World War II growth of the aircraft industry at Bethpage and Farmingdale. Oyster Bay now has a broad-based diversified economy with several planned industrial parks. Educational institutions in the town include the State University of New York (New York, State University of (SUNY)) College of Technology (established 1912) at Farmingdale, the State University of New York College (founded 1965) at Old Westbury, and the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (1954) at Brookville. The Nassau County (Nassau) Charter of 1936 preserved the rights of existing incorporated villages but denied the right of unincorporated communities to incorporate. Area 104 square miles (270 square km). Pop. (1990) 292,787; (2000) 293,925.

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