There's a whole "town" from the pre-Civil War 19th century on Long Island in Bethpage, NY called "Old Bethpage Village" composed almost entirely of houses moved there from around Long Island (Ed. - some, must be seeing a B-24, B-17, and a P-51 Mustang landings yesterday "next door" at Republic Airport (lots a backfires) and the ivy rash and spider bites digging there in the new tenacious vines.) They have some interesting "re-enactments" (summer horse racing) and other events there and an air-conditioned vistors center. I recall the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's baby rocker there in one of the small houses...
Nearby the Grumman Co. started as a small machine shop in the "cradle of aviation" and went on to build the Lunar Excursion Module, from pieces manufactured in small machine shops all over Long Island I was told by one of its organizers, so no one had the "big picture" until after final assembly. They recently joined with Northrup and while shovel testing "out east" saw the last two F-14s fly they had built. Eighty (80) had been delivered to Iran, purchased by the Shah, and over 4000 Grumman employees were once in Iran outside "Teheran" (old spelling?) training their air force to be ready "Anytime, baby" (from their shoulder patch). Grumman was once the single largest employer on Long Island, about 25,000. Some house moving, huh? To the Moon...
Sorry I mis-wrote, some of the houses at Old Bethpage Village have been moved there now that I think about it. It was once proposed by Huntington Town Historian, Rufus Langhans, that many of the older structures could be moved there he said. He had published the Huntington town records from what was known on maps as "Ashford" in the time of Oliver Cromwell, (I suspect a duality for many other places) that had never been sent as a matter of record to the then (and now) county seat in Riverhead, NY. Perhaps a struggle between locations the backdrop to where Connecticut's patriot son, Nathan Hale, was thought brought before the young commander of Long Island, the Queens Rangers' Benjamin Thompson (also cited as "gay" online, later known as the physicist Count Rumford) at Fort Golgotha in Huntington's cemetery, before transported to New York City hung and buried at as a yet verified location. A statue of him who regretted he "had but one life to lose for his country" has been moved to the front of the New York City Hall.
Though in the 20th century I thought I'd add that some buildings are sold off from Federal property apparently. One in Setauket, NY was transported from the former Camp Upton, Yaphank ("Yip, yip, Yaphank" the Irving Berlin WWI song, film records troops practicing with brooms, no weapons supplied) today the site of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. I'm not sure if it was a barracks or other building from the times. It's sort of behind the Captain Brewster Hawkins House, the shipbuilder of record of "Wanderer" the "last slaver" though not its owner when involved in the British blockade running off of Africa there though reported boarded by the British Navy. I was told a half dozen or so were auctioned off?
It's on Hawkins Ave., off the Shore Road (which Captain Brewster Hawkins had to make wide enough for two carriages to pass in order to build a dock according to the Town of Brookhaven records), in the Town of Brookhaven Historic District in East Setauket (one of the first town designations I believe, nearby Stony Brook village preservation "defended" by shoe heir Ward Melville in the early 1960s before the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, its first president, Benjamin Franklin). It is or was the fourth house in on south side of the "dead end"?
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