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Beginnings: Matinecock Indians lived for centuries at the spot where Sea Cliff is now. Dome-shaped wigwams spread along the bluff above Hempstead Harbor, where Matinecock Indians would fish in the harbor and raise crops on the field behind the bluff. The obviously productive farmland attracted British settlers, and in 1668 Joseph Carpenter bought the area from the Matinecocks. Isolated from main roads, the community, then named Carpenterville, remained quiet for more than two centuries - except during the Revolution, when the British established a camp there.
Photo: A 1906 postcard shows youths lined up to race their "cars" in Sea Cliff. (Collection of Joel Streich)
Photo: A 1906 postcard shows youths lined up to race their "cars" in Sea Cliff. (Collection of Joel Streich)
Beginnings: Matinecock Indians lived for centuries at the spot where Sea Cliff is now. Dome-shaped wigwams spread along the bluff above Hempstead Harbor, where Matinecock Indians would fish in the harbor and raise crops on the field behind the bluff. The obviously productive farmland attracted British settlers, and in 1668 Joseph Carpenter bought the area from the Matinecocks. Isolated from main roads, the community, then named Carpenterville, remained quiet for more than two centuries - except during the Revolution, when the British established a camp there.
Photo: A 1906 postcard shows youths lined up to race their "cars" in Sea Cliff. (Collection of Joel Streich)
Photo: A 1906 postcard shows youths lined up to race their "cars" in Sea Cliff. (Collection of Joel Streich)
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Rebecca D. Dorsey, cabaret singer
Rebecca D. Dorsey, a Baltimore-born and -raised chanteuse, died Sept. 14 of ovarian cancer at her home in Sea Cliff, N.Y. She was 54.
The daughter of a physician and a public relations executive, Rebecca Devereux Dorsey was born in Baltimore and raised...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), University of Paris, Woody Allen, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Long Island
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Long Islanders Cope with Latest Winter Blast
wpix.comOn Long Island, the northern section of Nassau County was hit the hardest by the latest blast of winter. Plows were out since the wee morning hours, while the most heavily traveled and most heavily salted roads fared pretty well throughout the storm with...Tags: WPIX, Long Island
Sep 21, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 16, 2010
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