 | 1702 South Country Road (originally called
the Highway at the South) was established between Brookhaven and
Bellport. |
| 1735-37 Twelve Fire Place landowners
petitioned the Town and built Beaver Dam Road. |
| c. 1740 Some of the oldest houses in the
Hamlet were erected, including the William Rose house a little
west of the old South Haven Church (its own first building erected
in 1740) and Sue Fosters house on Locust Lane. |
| c. 1775 Twenty-one men from Fire Place fought
in the American Revolution. Several are buried in the Rose
Cemetery 1ocated in the field between Mott Lane and Edgar Avenue.
|
| 1803 The first schoolhouse was built on what
is known today as Fire Place Neck Road. |
| 1813 On November 10, eleven men from the Fire
Place went through Smiths Inlet to fish in the Atlantic. When the
men left their boat to fish on a dry shoal nearby, the tide took
the boat away and all drowned. Some are buried in the Rose
Cemetery. |
| 1815 -- The Brook Store, once known as
Ellisons and now a Brookhaven Hamlet landmark, opened; for many
years the Post Office shared the building. |
| c. 1865 Ten men from the Fire Place were
verified as having served in the Civil War. |
| 1871 Fire Place was renamed Brookhaven by
vote of the residents. |
| 1873 St. James Episcopal Church was built.
|
| 1900 Boatbuilder Captain Sam Newey opened a
boatyard near the end of Beaver Dam Road. |
| 1961 Old South Haven Church, at one time the
only meetinghouse between Babylon and Southampton, was moved from
the shores of the Carmans River in South Haven to the corner of
Beaver Dam Road and South Country Road. The original church
building was burned to the ground by the Americans in 1780 to keep
the British from using it for storage and barracks, and the
current building was rebuilt in 1828. |
| 1985 Brookhaven Hamlet designated an Historic
District by Brookhaven Town. |
Selected Bibliography
Bayles, Thomas R. The Early Years in Brookhaven
Town. Privately printed, 1962.
Bigelow, Stephanie S. Bellport and Brookhaven;
A Saga of the Sibling Hamlets at Old Purchase South.
Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, 1968.
Borg, Pamela, and Shreeve, Elizabeth. The
Carmans River Story: A Natural and Human History. Privately
printed, 1974.
Records of the Town of Brookhaven up to 1800.
Printed at the office of the Advance, Patchogue, 1880.
Shaw, Osborn History of Brookhaven Village.
Paper written for the Fire Place Literary Club and read by Mr. Shaw,
the Town Historian, at the Brookhaven Free Library, October 5, 1933.
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