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Huntington, New York
Huntington, New York (New York)
Huntington, New York
Huntington, New York
Coordinates: 40°51′4″N 73°22′31″W / 40.85111, -73.37528
Country United States
State New York
County Suffolk
Government
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Area
 - Total 137. Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 1 sq mi (355. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 1 km²)
 - Land 94. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different geographical regions we list here areas between 1000 km2 and 10000 km2 0 sq mi (243. 4 km²)
 - Water 43. 1 sq mi (111. 8 km²)
Elevation 135 ft (41 m)
Population (2000)[1]
 - Total 195,289
 - Density 2,078. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 5/sq mi (802. 5/km²)
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
ZIP code 11743
Area code(s) 631
FIPS code 36-37000
GNIS feature ID 0979087
Website: Huntington, NY

The Town of Huntington is a town located on the North Shore of Long Island, in northwestern Suffolk County, New York. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight saving time ( DST The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−4 is the Time offset used in the Atlantic Standard Time Zone in Canada in winter and the North American Eastern Time Zone during The ZIP code is the system of Postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks The area code 631 is used in the state of New York in eastern Long Island exclusively for Suffolk County. Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military The Geographic Names Information System ( GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout Administrative divisions of New York State differ from those in certain other countries and most U Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Suffolk County is a county located in the US state of New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Just east of Nassau County, it was settled in 1653. Huntington is part of the New York metropolitan area. The New York metropolitan area, often referred to as the Tri-State Area, is the most populous Metropolitan area in the United States and is also one As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 195,289.

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History

On April 2, 1653, when Richard Holbrook, Robert Williams and Daniel Whitehead, all of Oyster Bay, bought from Raseokan, Sachem of the Matinecock tribe, a parcel of land that is now known as "the First Purchase. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Metoac (sometimes inaccurately referred to as the 13 tribes of Long Island) is the collective name for the locations of the Algonquian -speaking Native Americans on " The Oyster Bay men immediately turned the land over to a group of white men who had already settled within its boundaries. This first purchase was bordered on the west by Cold Spring Harbor, on the east by Northport Harbor, on the south by what is now known as Old Country Road and on the north by Long Island Sound. This article is about the Old Country Road in Nassau and western Suffolk County in the United States. As time went on, other land was purchased from the Indians, gradually extending the limits of the town from Long Island Sound on the north to Great South Bay on the south, and from Oyster Bay on the west to Smithtown and Islip on the east. In 1872, part of the town was removed to form the Town of Babylon. The Town of Babylon is located in southwestern Suffolk County, New York, USA.

Most of the early settlers were English people who came to Huntington by way of Massachusetts and Connecticut. As a result, they felt more of a kinship with New England than with their Dutch neighbors to the west in New Amsterdam. The town in fact voted in 1660 to place itself under the jurisdiction of Connecticut to gain some protection from the Dutch. Following the custom of New England, the earliest form of government in Huntington was the Town Meeting. Called as the need arose, free men of the town gathered to distribute town-held land, resolve disputes, regulate the pasturing of cattle on town land, engage schoolmasters, appoint someone to keep the ordinary (public house) and maintain the roads, as well as resolve any other matters that concerned the town as a whole. For example, the people of Huntington showed their interest in education very soon after the founding of the town. The Town Meeting voted on February 11, 1657 to hire Jonas Houldsworth as the first schoolmaster. In 1660 the town voted to build a schoolhouse.

When in 1664 the Duke of York became proprietor of the area formerly known as New Netherland, he (in the person of Governor Richard Nicholls) informed Connecticut that by virtue of his royal patent they no longer had any claim to any territory on Long Island. Governor Nicholls summoned representatives of each town on Long Island to meet in Hempstead early in 1665. The representatives were required to bring with them evidence of title to their land and to receive new grants affirming that title. The Hempstead Convention also adopted the "Duke's Laws," which regulated virtually every area of life. At this time, too, Long Island, Staten Island and Westchester were formed into an entity called "Yorkshire," which was divided into three parts, or "ridings," as land was divided in England. Suffolk County, including Huntington, became part of the East Riding. With some modifications, including the abolition of "Yorkshire" and "ridings" this was the form that the government of New York retained until the Revolution.

Governor Thomas Dongan issued a patent in 1688 that confirmed the earlier Nicholls Patent. In addition, it mandated the creation of "Trustees" to manage and distribute town-owned land. The Trustees, like other town officials, were chosen at a Town Meeting. The Dongan Patent also authorized the creation and use of a seal, which is still in use today.

In the years between the first settlement of the town and the start of the American Revolution, Huntington became an established community. The earliest settlers clustered near what became known as the "town spot", the site of the present Village Green. As the town prospered and grew, people moved to fill the outlying areas. In addition to the many farms that were established in remote as well as central portions of the town, the town included a school, a church, flour mills, saw mills, brickyards, tanneries, a town dock and a fort.

Huntington's fine harbor meant that shipping became an important part of the economy. The harbor was a busy place, with vessels traveling not only to and from other ports along the Sound but also as far as the West Indies. Ship making and related nautical businesses prospered, since water was for many years by far the most efficient way to transport both goods and people. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Cold Spring Harbor was a busy whaling port, second on Long Island only to Sag Harbor.

In June 1774 Huntington adopted a "Declaration of Rights" affirming "that every freemans property is absolutely his own" and that taxation without representation is a violation of the rights of British subjects. " No taxation without representation " began as a Slogan in the period 1763–1776 that summarized a primary grievance of the British Colonists The Declaration of Rights also called for the colonies to unite in a refusal to do business with Great Britain. Two years later, news of the Declaration of Independence was received with great enthusiasm in Huntington, but the euphoria was short-lived. The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 announcing that the thirteen American colonies then Following the defeat of the rebel forces at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776 Long Island was occupied by the British Army. Background On March 17 1776 the British fleet retreated to Halifax Nova Scotia to refit after the end of the year-long Siege of Boston. Residents were required to take oaths of allegiance to the Crown. If a man refused to take the oath, he and his family could be turned off their property, losing everything. In 1782 the occupying army established an encampment in Huntington's Old Burying Ground, razing tombstones to clear the site. Not surprisingly, many townspeople resisted, waging guerilla warfare until the war was over and the British left in 1783.

Nathan Hale landed at Huntington in 1776, coming by boat from Norwalk, Connecticut on a spying mission for George Washington. Nathan Hale ( June 6, 1755 &ndash September 22, 1776) was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary Sent to gather information about the British forces on Long Island and in New York City, he was captured and executed in New York City in September 1776. A memorial stands at the approximate site of his coming ashore in Huntington, an area now known as Halesite.

Slavery existed in Huntington until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Farmers relied on slave labor for help in the fields and it was a mark of status to have black slaves as domestic servants, but rarely did a person own more than a few slaves. For example, according to a 1755 census, there were 81 slaves belonging to 35 families in Huntington. Unlike the South, the economy was not heavily dependent on slave labor. The New York State Legislature passed an act in 1799 allowing for the gradual abolition of slavery.

The War of 1812 did not touch Huntington as had the Revolution, but the town was prepared. The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the British Empire, particularly Great Britain and her North American colonies "On one occasion a corps of 200 militiamen marched from Huntington to Lloyd's Neck on the circulation of a report [untrue] that the British were there effecting a landing in force. " In November 1814 the Town Meeting voted that $207. 86 be paid by the town for costs incurred in preparing its defense.

Huntington's best-known resident, Walt Whitman, was born in South Huntington in 1819. Walter Whitman (May 31 1819 &ndash March 26 1892 was an American poet, Essayist journalist, and humanist. His family moved to Brooklyn when he was a child but he returned to Long Island as a young man. At the age of 19 he founded The Long-Islander, a Huntington newspaper still in existence.

The railroad was extended from Syosset to Northport in 1867. Syosset is a hamlet (and a Census-designated place) in Nassau County, New York, within the Town of Oyster Bay. Northport is a Village in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. The arrival of the railroad in Huntington presaged the decline of the maritime economy, although shipping was important until approximately the turn of the twentieth century. Since shipping had long been an important part of the life and economy of Huntington, the town had not been unconnected to the rest of the world. With the increased accessibility of Long Island due to steamboats, trains and later automobiles, Huntington became physically less isolated. Residents of New York City were able to easily visit Huntington, as had not been possible in earlier days. Cold Spring Harbor became a popular summer resort. See Cold Spring Harbor for other uses of the name Cold Spring Harbor is a hamlet (and Census-designated place) in

When World War II ended in 1945 the population of Huntington, like that of Long Island as a whole, exploded. After almost 200 years of gradual growth, the population of the town mushroomed. Huntington had approximately 32,000 residents in 1940. By 1960 there were 126,000 inhabitants. By the 1980s the population had gone over the 200,000 mark. With the enormous growth of the town its rural landscape changed. Farms and vacant land disappeared, replaced by housing, schools, highways, recreational facilities and new and expanding business and industry.

Huntington was named an All-America City in 2002 by the National Civic League. The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten cities in the United States. The National Civic League is an Organization founded in 1894 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania at a meeting of politicians policy-makers journalists and It was also a finalist in 2001.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 137. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census 1 square miles (355. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 1 km²), of which, 94. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 0 square miles (243. 4 km²) of it is land and 43. 2 square miles (111. 8 km²) of it (31. 47%) is water.

The west town line is the border of Nassau County, and the north town line, delineated by the Long Island Sound, is the border of Connecticut. There is also a Town of Nassau in Rensselaer County. Nassau County is a suburban county in the New York Metropolitan Long Island Sound is an Estuary of the Atlantic Ocean and various Rivers in the United States that lies between the coast of Connecticut Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Also, the two other town lines include the east town line which is the border of Smithtown and the south town line which is the border of Babylon. Babylon New York can refer to Babylon (town New York, in Suffolk County New York USA Babylon (village New York, in the town of

Demographics

Pop. of Huntington, NY
195,289 people White Black Asian Native Americans Pacific Islanders Hispanic/Latino Other Two or more races
Races of Huntington 88. White is a Color, the perception which is evoked by Light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive Cone cells in the Human eye Black is the Color of objects that do not emit or Reflect Light in any part of the Visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of Asian or Asiatic is a Demonym for people from Asia. However the use of the term varies by country and person often referring to people from a particular Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Pacific Islander (or Pacific Person, pl Pacific People, also called Oceanic[s] ' is a geographic term to describe the Austronesian Hispanic (hispano hispánico hispânico Hispānus adjective from ''Hispānia'', the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in Continental philosophy, opposed to the Same 31% 4. 22% 3. 50% 0. 13% 0. 02% 6. 58% 2. 27% 1. 55%

As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 195,289 people, 65,917 households, and 52,338 families residing in the town. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population The population density was 2,078. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 4 people per square mile (802. 5/km²). There were 67,708 housing units at an average density of 720. 6/sq mi (278. 2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 88. 31% White, 4. 22% Black or African American, 0. 13% Native American, 3. 50% Asian, 0. 02% Pacific Islander, 2. 27% from other races, and 1. 55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 58% of the population.

There were 65,917 households out of which 37. 1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67. 4% were married couples living together, 8. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** 9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20. 6% were non-families. 16. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2. 91 and the average family size was 3. 26.

In the town the population was spread out with 25. 5% under the age of 18, 5. 8% from 18 to 24, 30. 2% from 25 to 44, 25. 5% from 45 to 64, and 13. 1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 96. 2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93. 4 males.

According to a 2006 estimate, the median income for a household in the town was $95,089, and the median income for a family was $103,263. [3] Males had a median income of $61,748 versus $40,825 for females. The per capita income for the town was $36,390. Per capita income means how much each individual receives in monetary terms of the yearly income generated in the country About 2. 9% of families and 4. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5. The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of Income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate Standard of living in a given country 1% of those under age 18 and 4. 6% of those age 65 or over.

Climate

Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Rec High °F 69 67 82 94 98 96 102 100 92 86 78 77
Norm High °F 39. 1 40. 5 48. 5 58. 1 68. 9 77. 4 83. 2 81. 7 74. 9 64 53. 7 43. 9
Norm Low °F 22. 6 24. 3 31. 1 40 49. 4 59. 6 65. 9 64. 5 56. 6 44. 6 36. 1 27. 5
Rec Low °F -7 1 8 24 34 43 50 45 38 28 11 5
Precip (in) 4. 27 3. 33 4. 76 4. 13 3. 9 3. 71 2. 93 4. 48 3. 39 3. 63 3. 86 4. 13

Education

There are a number of different school districts in Huntington, providing very fair education for youth residents of the town. Here are some listed below (some might extend further out of the town).

Cold Spring Harbor Central School District

Commack School District

Elwood Union Free School District

Half Hollow Hills Central School District

Harborfields Central School District

Huntington Union Free School District

Northport-East Northport Union Free School District

South Huntington Union Free School District

Local Media

Several weekly newspapers cover local news exclusively, most notably The Long-Islander since 1838.

Communities and locations

Villages (incorporated)

Hamlets (unincorporated)

Notable residents

Former

See also

References

  1. ^ Metropolitan & Central City Population: 2000-2005. Demographia. com, accessed September 3, 2006.
  2. ^ American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census Retrieved on 2008-01-31. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes
  3. ^ Fact Sheet. American Community Survey. U. S. Census Bureau (2006). Retrieved on 2007-11-28. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events
  4. ^ Treydmark. HipHop Charts. SoundClick. SoundClick is a music-based social community It offers bands artists and music labels a platform for self-promotion Retrieved on 2007-11-28. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. For the town in Argentina, see 28 de Noviembre. Events

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