Local History Resources: Historical Documents / Books

Source: American Photograph Company, circa 1907

Source: Cadman H. Frederick and the Long Island Realty Co.

Source: John J. Randall Co.

Onslow-Moore, circa 1907

Written by Charles J. Zimmerman, Curator Freeport Historical Museum

Clinton Metz, Village Historian (circa 1965)

Written by Freeport resident, Dr. David A. Tutrone around 1938.
Courtesy of the Freeport History Society
(please note: this document does contain a few errors - the Freeport name was adopted in 1853; Freeport Water Department began in 1894; and the first power plant was built in 1897).

Transcribed from a typed written copy located in the Long Island Room (LI R 974.7211 F). The original was written between 1917 and 1918.

by Fred Hager and Isabelle Drach (1995)

Source: Freeport Methodist Episcopal Church

Author Unknown, March 31, 1937

Compiled from a talk he gave before the Exchange Club, June 9, 1971.

Written by William E. Golder

Written by Clinton Metz, Village Historian

Freeport Methodist Church
By Gordon Yarrow and Arthur Gordon, 1966

Remarks of Robert Moses to the Freeport Historical Society at the Freeport Memorial Library, February 26, 1974

by Cadman H. Frederick circa 1927

Minutes of Ceremony Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Freeport, October 22, 1962

Speech given by Mayor Raymond J. Miller about the Village of Freeport on November 14. 1924.
Source: Freeport Historical Society

By Herbert Jurist, circa 1970
Transcribed from original copy located in Freeport Memorial Library's Authors Collection [Freeport Author LI R 332.42 J]

Written by Daniel M. Tredwell
Published in Long Island Historical Bulletin, October 1913

November 27, 1962

By Clinton Metz, Village Historian

Source: A New Kitching with a Nouveau Influence.
By Mary Westring
Victorian Homes, Fall 1988.

By Clinton E. Metz, n.d. (transcribed from original)
Source: Metz Papers, Freeport Historical Society

By Clinton E. Metz, n.d. (transcribed from original)
Source: Metz Papers, Freeport Historical Society

By Clinton E. Metz, n.d. (includes author's notations)
Source: Metz Papers, Freeport Historical Society

From Volume 6 of the Original Records of the Town Hempstead, Queens County, Now in the vault of the Town Clerk, Town Hall, Front Street, Hempstead. Copied by John F. DeLorme, Historian, Village of Freeport.

LI Room R 974.721 H

Compiled by Harry D. Daniels, 1960
Courtesy of the Roosevelt Public Library

Living in 1940 at 61 Church Street, Freeport

Data collected by Sarah Maria Ryder Bennett and Stephen Williamson Hunt, arranged by William Frederick Cornell, 1941

By Theunis G. Bergen and Mrs. B. (Ritie) Bennett
March 12, 1940

By William Frederick Cornell, 1946

By Clinton Metz, circa 1973

By William Frederick Cornell, 1946
Includes the wills of:
Mary Bedell, 1896
Raynor R. Smith, 1869
Gersham Smith, 1797
Gersham Rock Smith, 1736
Adam Smith, 1838
William R. Smith, 1893

By Richard P. Baldwin

by Richard P. Baldwin

Transcription from Chester Curtis Fulton's Memoirs of Truck Company No. 1 F. F. D.
Source: Freeport Historical Society & Museum