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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P4I_nature-trail-and-woodland_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Sagamore Hill may have been a working farm, but it was also a playground for Theodore Roosevelt. He cleared much of the land, but left these 35 acres as woodlands filled with chestnuts, elms, and cedars. It was home to wildlife and allowed Rooseve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P4G_roosevelts-at-play_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Tennis at Sagamore Hill had unique challenges and court rules. The ground wasn't level and tree branches closed in the court. The Roosevelts allowed "that when a ball hit a branch and might have gone in it was a 'let.'"For Theodore Roose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P49_matinecock-lodge_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Masonic Lodge of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the UnitedStates. Raised to a MasterMason April 24, 1901.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P48_the-great-chain-hoax_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
Sold by Francis Bannerman to Col. Robert Townsend (1853 - 1915) in the early 1900's as the great chain links which crossed the Hudson at West Point during the Revolution. The original chain links were made by his great grandfather at the Sterling …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P47_housing-the-staff_Oyster-Bay-NY.html
The Roosevelt family needed full-time assistance to maintain the house and farm. Theodore had a devoted valet, James Amos, he called his "head man." The house staff included a cook, waitress, chambermaid, and a nurse who had worked for E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H1T_to-commemorate-the-1st-crossing-from-east-to-west-and-the-1st-double-crossing-of-the-atlantic-by-air_Garden-City-NY.html
To commemorate the first crossing from east to west and the first double crossing of the Atlantic by air accomplished by the British airship R34 which left East Fortune Scotland on July 2nd 1919, landed Mineola Long Island on July 6th, and returne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18BQ_glen-cove-civil-war-memorial_Glen-Cove-NY.html
Dedicated tothe memoryof thosewho servedin theArmy & Navyof theUnited Statesduring the Warto preservethe AmericanUnion1861 - 1865 My paramountobject in thisstruggle isto preservethe UnionAbraham Lincoln
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