The following is a breakdown of preserved lands within our study area:

Additionally, there are a number of acres acquired mostly through tax defaults. In the headwaters of Beaver Dam Creek, this land includes about 35 acres of mostly Suffolk County land, as well as some New York State and Brookhaven Town land, while another 35 to 40 acres of County land is found near the Oaklawn Cemetery. In other parts of the Hamlet, the Town also owns four acres used for three recharge basins and a small park. See Plate 4.

4. Preservation along Beaver Dam Creek: Post Morrow Foundation

The Post family’s ties with the Brookhaven and South Haven community extend back to Revolutionary times. The records of the Old South Haven Church indicate that James Post, who came from Southampton after the Revolution, was a trustee of the church in the late 1700s.

It was his descendant, James Howell Post, whose philanthropy gave us our beautiful library, the land for our churches and cemetery, and who, through his leadership in the BVA, created our Fire Department and Ambulance Company. After his death, his heirs deeded the 13-acre site along the Carmans River known as Squassux Landing, to the BVA.

The concept of establishing a perpetual organization to preserve the Hamlet was planned by his daughter, Elisabeth Post Morrow, and her husband Thomas Morrow, but it was not until after Thomas Morrow’s death that his wife formed the Post Morrow Foundation in 1969. The purpose of the foundation is "… to preserve and conserve the historic, rural countryside of Brookhaven, South Haven and Bellport …."

The Foundation owns about 60 acres, of which 50 acres are adjacent to the Beaver Dam Creek. Plans are under way for a wetlands restoration project on foundation property, to be conducted jointly with the U.S. Department of Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service. A nature trail has been built to the south of the Morrow home and a joint effort is now under way between the PMF, Bellport High School Students for Environmental Quality, the Town of Brookhaven DEP and the BVA to create a management plan for the 18-acre Fire Place Nature Preserve on the Great South Bay near the mouth of the Beaver Dam Creek, with an eye toward having a trail system connecting the preserve to the PMF land.

Pages

Title Page
i • Prologue
ii • Prologue
iii • Prologue
iv • Committee
Table of Contents
1 • I. Introduction
1a • Plate 1
2 • II. Overview
3 • II. Overview
4 • II. Overview
5 • II. Overview
6 • II. Overview
7-8 • II. Overview
9 • III. History
10-11 • III. History
12 • IV. Land Use
12a • Plate 2
13 • IV. Land Use
13a • Plate 3
14 • IV. Land Use
15 • IV. Land Use
15a • Plate 4
15b • Carmans River
16 • V. Land Use Issues
17 • V. Land Use Issues
18 • V. Land Use Issues
19 • V. Land Use Issues
20 • V. Land Use Issues
20a • Plate 5
21 • VI. Other Issues
22 • VI. Other Issues
23 • VI. Other Issues
24 • VI. Other Issues
25 • VI.Other Issues
25a • Plate 6
26 • VI. Other Issues
27 • VI. Other Issues
28 • VI. Other Issues
29 • VI. Other Issues
30 • VII. Summary
31 • VII. Summary
32 • VII. Recommendations
33 • VII. Recommendations
34 • VII. Recommendations
35 • A. Questionnaire
36 • A. Questionnaire
37 • A. Questionnaire
38 • A. Questionnaire
39 • A. Questionnaire
40 • B. Community Comments
41 • B. Community Comments
42 • B. Community Comments

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