A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork : The Lost World of the Hallocks and Their Sound Avenue Community / Richard A. Wines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wines, Richard A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hallock family.

Hallock, Halsey, 1838-1939--Family.

Hallock, Halsey.

Hallockville Museum Farm--History.

Hallockville Museum Farm.

Manners and customs.

Hallock Homestead (N.Y.).

Northville (Suffolk County, N.Y.)--Biography.

Northville (Suffolk County, N.Y.).

Sound Avenue (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Sound Avenue (N.Y.).

Suffolk County (N.Y.)--Genealogy.

Suffolk County (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Special Place Called Sound Avenue

Why Read About the Hallocks?

A Sound Avenue Boy

Names

Additional Material

1. The Family Attic

17th-Century Puritan Roots

Hallock Family Roots

William Hallock, Son of Peter

Land Dividend

New Meeting Houses and the Great Awakening

Slavery in the Family

The Revolution and British Occupation

Zachariah's Land Purchases

Zachariah II and the War of 1812

Herman and Arminda

The Aquebogue Church Is Racked by Dissension

The Next Generation

2. The Young Halsey Hallock

Halsey's Birth

Halsey's Childhood

The House Exchange of 1845

Raising the Roof

Early Education

School Books and Budgets

Students of Color

A Descendant of Abraham

Tommy Pope

Halsey's Diary

Lots of Church Meetings

Life in Herman and Arminda's Household

Brother Charles Marries and Moves to Smithtown

School Term in Smithtown

The Franklinville Academy

Scarlet Fever

Brother Daniel and Sister Adelia Marry

Music

Temperance

No Mention of Anti-Slavery

A World Unchanged

3. Love, War, and Death: Daniel, Halsey, and the Civil War

A Vote for Lincoln

Love and Marriage

Marietta Terry

Major Changes to the Homestead

Family and Community Divided by the War

Support for the War Did Not Lead to Volunteering

Marietta's Brother Charles Terry

Halsey's Brother Daniel Goes Off to the War

Elisha Wells

James Henry Tuthill

A Substitute Dies for Halsey

Death of Halsey's First Wife

4. Last Family in the Homestead: 1866-1885

Halsey's Second Marriage

Emilie

Wedding

Halsey and Emilie's Wedding Trip

Romantic Words in Emilie's "Forget Me Not Album

Dear Emilie

A New Family

Changes in the Homestead.

Standard of Living

Sister Hannah Volunteers after the War

A Troubled Romance

Wider Horizons: Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

Deaths of Herman and Arminda

5. Scandals in the Church

A Dispute over a Melodeon

Erection of a New Church Divides the Congregation

Slavery Further Divides the Church

The Organ Smashing Incident

The First Attempt to Burn the Church

A Brief Revival

More Mysterious Incidents

The Reverend Wright

The Church Is Burned

The Next Day

The Trustees Evict Wright

The Press Could Not Get Enough of the Story

Lawsuits Continued for Four More Years

Libel Lawsuit against the Church

More Lawsuits

Sensationalism from the New York Times

A Revival Gets Out Of Hand

A New Scandal

Another Falling Out

Why All the Scandals and Controversy?

Rewriting Their History

6. Life in the Homestead: 1885-1920

Bessie's Album

School

Two Sisters Marry

A Family Reunion and Other Excursions

Quakes and Blizzards

The Hallocks Continue to Enlarge and Update the Old Homestead

The West Wing Moves across the Street

Cars

Women's Organizations Blossom

Young Ladies' Busy Workers Society

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Children and Young People's Programs in the Church

A Very Active Social Life for the Young Misses Bessie and Ella

Literary Society and a Lyceum Club

A Sound Avenue Tennis Club

A Typical Day for Ella

Women's Suffrage

Why Did They Never Marry?

7. The Hallock Farm

The Farm in Halsey's Youth

Accelerating Agricultural Change

Peak Years on the Farm

Changes in Agriculture

Appearance of the Farm

Changes in the Landscape

Mechanization, a Road Not Taken

Hallock Homestead Barn

The Farmyard

Help on the Farm

Tenant House

A Model of Sustainability

8. Sound Avenue Prosperity.

Change Accelerates after the Civil War

They Are All Hallocks!

Demographics

Sound Avenue Mobility

Factors Driving Prosperity

A New Church and an Academy

The Third Church

A Fourth New Church in 1904

New Schoolhouses

New Union School

Riverhead Town Agricultural Society

First RFD Route and the Sound Avenue Name

Iron Pier

Telephone

Electricity

The Great Race

New Polish Neighbors

A Neighborhood Rum-Running Operation

Village of Sound Avenue

People of Color

Child Laborers from the House of Refuge

Racism

The Strange Tale of Chloe Luce

The Great Migration

Prosperity and Modernity

9. Love, Courtship, and Marriage on Sound Avenue

Love in the Sound Avenue Community

Oldest Account of a Wedding on Sound Avenue

Courtship on Sound Avenue

Henrietta Terry's Courtship and Wedding

Three August Excursions

Making Her Wedding Dress

Preparing for the Wedding

The Wedding

The Infare

The Serenade

Henrietta and Herbert Set Up Housekeeping

10. Holidays and Entertainment

Fourth of July

Christmas

Fast Days and Thanksgivings

Easter

Parties and Entertainments

Barn Raisings

Excursions

Sound Avenue Grange

The Great Christian Endeavor Horse Race

11. What Did the Hallocks Eat?

Capt. Zachariah and Hannah's Table

Corn

Potatoes

Molasses

Meat

Seafood

Vegetables and Fruits

Strawberries

Pies and Cakes

Lard and Suet

Bread

Alcoholic Beverages

Sarsaparilla

Canning

Seasonal Cooking

Persistence

12. Retirement and Old Age

Daughters of the Revolution and WCTU

Bessie's Brownie Camera

A Golden Wedding Celebration

USS Shenandoah

Halsey Writes about the Farm

Hallock Pond and the Long Island Sound Shore

Halsey's Final Years

Halsey's 100th

Halsey's Death.

13. Last Decades in the Homestead: 1939-1979

Sound Avenue Quilters

Changes in Their World

Northville Dock

Fuel Desulfurization

Riverhead Harbor Industrial Park

The End of the "Sand Mine in Disguise

LILCO's Nuclear Power Plants

Ella's Years Alone

Author's Recollections

Other Recollections of Ella

14. Epilogue: Hallockville Museum Farm, Keyspan Project, Hallock State Park

The Sound Avenue Scenic and Historic Corridor

Founding of the Hallockville Museum Farm

Preserving the "KeySpan Property

How the Hallock Name Prevailed

A Final Word

Appendix: Guide to the Hallocks

Table A. Guide to the Hallocks

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4384-9984-1

OCLC:

1463057707