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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P62_a-respite-for-mrs-roosevelt_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Six Roosevelt children and nearly a dozen neighboring cousins could be a rambunctious group. Sometimes Edith Roosevelt needed a place for solitude. The Arbor was not too far from the house. She could enjoy the sun and scented roses, yet still be c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P5W_valued-family-friends_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
While most families have a pet or two, the Roosevelt family nearly had a zoo. At various times they had dogs, cats, horses, guinea pigs, snakes, flying squirrels, kangaroo rats, birds, a bear cub, and a badger.The death of a pet meant a funeral th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P5U_a-gentlemans-farm-1918_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
This land around you had always been a working farm. When Theodore Roosevelt bought the property in 1880 it already included an orchard, fields of corn, asparagus, and buckwheat as well as an old barn. After the purchase, Roosevelt had his own ide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P5P_end-of-an-era_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
The Hamlet changed drastically and quickly in the early 20th century, but things began to slow after Theodore Roosevelt's presidency came to an end in 1909. His impact, however, would continue to shape Oyster Bay for years to come, even after his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P5I_a-thoroughly-modern-house_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
The windmill to your left is a re-creation of two previous windmills Theodore Roosevelt had built. The first was constructed when the house was built. A second windmill, and a supplemental gas-powered pump, replaced that one in 1905. The mills pum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P58_old-orchard_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
"Tired of living here and there in rented houses," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1937 she and her husband Ted Jr. purchased four acres of Sagamore Hill from his mother. The Georgian-style home, built in 1938, sat at the south end of the ol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P55_helping-feed-the-family_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Mealtimes were family times for the Roosevelt family. Breakfast might include peaches and cream, fried liver and bacon, grits, waffles, cereal, milk, and for Theodore Roosevelt, lots of coffee. Dinners often featured fried chicken covered with whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P53_a-garden-for-food-and-color_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
In Theodore Roosevelt's time this field was a three-acre garden of vegetables, fruit trees, and berries. It produced potatoes, lima beans, lettuce, and carrots, peach, plum, and pear trees, and multiple grape arbors. Despite its size the garden wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P51_the-first-building_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Sagamore Hill had been farmland before Theodore Roosevelt bought the property. He intended to live here and keep it a working farm. The farm would need animals and farm workers; both would need shelter. The first building Roosevelt had built provi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P4K_from-barn-to-home_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
The Old Barn was gone and the farm needed a replacement. Edith Roosevelt oversaw the plans for what became the New Barn, built in 1907. To reduce costs, she eliminated the concrete-lined basement meant for the cows, and instead planned to keep the…