Oyster Bay History

Founded over 300 years ago, the town of Oyster Bay on Long Island in New York has a colorful history, stretching from the Matinecock Indians who gave way to Dutch and English settlers, through the Revolutionary War when Robert Townsend served Washington as the spy, Culper Jr., to its glory years when Sagamore Hill served as Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Bayville Thicket Grows Raynham Picket

In a benevolent twist on Robert Frost's immortal line, Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay is finding that "Good neighbors make good fences."

Raynham Hall Museum

In a recent rendezvous for restoration, Raynham Hall Trustee and local architectural historian John Collins met with Bayville Mayor Victoria Siegel at the Bayville Preserve to select locust saplings, which will be harvested to reconstruct the Museum's picket fence and entrance gate.

Designed by Mr. Collins, the replica fence will be handcrafted following 18th century examples. Read more here...

posted by The Webshop @ 12:42 PM    

1 Comments:

  • At 12:33 PM, Anonymous said…

    nice that our government is cutting down our trees for another town, wouldn't it have been more accurate to get saplings from Theodore Roosevelt Park?

     

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