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Offers anyone within the Community a chance to explore local history through education. Offers programs funded in part by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and the Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.

Offers licensing, records, and informational services to village residents.

Village services

Preserves and exhibits local history and presents programs on local history of Miller Place and Mt. Sinai.

Village services

Charitable operating foundation established to preserve and conserve the rural, cultural and historical character of the hamlet of Brookhaven and surrounding areas in Suffolk County. Gives grants to local charities

Responsible for designating historic districts and town landmarks.

Preserves and exhibits the history of Alexander Graham Bell and the development of the telephone. Exhibits include a re-creation of Alexander Graham Bell's workshop, the wire used in the first telephone transmission and models of early telephones.

Combines a museum, gift shop, community meeting hall and banquet facility.

Provides a research facility which includes digital collections, historical and genealogical databases, Brentwood High School yearbooks, reference collection for genealogy and local history research, scrapbooks, photographs and artifacts related to Brentwood history. Please call ahead for access to our special collections.

Government and services

Village services

Offers an array of tours and events focusing on communities architectural heritage.

Preserves and exhibits local history and presents programs on local history of Greenlawn and Centerport

To advance historic preservation in Chenango County. Provides information on the history of Chenango County for educational and research purposes.

Preserves (jointly with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association) the 1819 house in which Walt Whitman was born, making the poet, his life, and his work accessible to those visiting the site. Also offers lectures, workshops, seminars, poetry readings, Art Gallery, poetry festivals, and exhibits. Call for more information.

Village services

Exhibits local history and presents programs on local history of Amagansett from the Colonial period through the 20th century. Consists of Miss Amelie Cottage Museum and the Roy K. Lester Carriage Museum exhibiting locally made 28 horse-drawn carriages. Call for schedule and fees.

Preserves and exhibits local history and presents programs on local history of East Islip. Meetings are the first Wednesday of the month (except for January and February, July and August). Call for location and additional information.

Books, eBooks, CD''s, movies, audio, periodicals and Braille works available. Free Wi-Fi.

Houses resource materials that allow researchers to better understand how the past shaped the local community. This is done through documents, ledgers, account books, scrapbooks, journals, personal correspondence, business records, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, contemporary books, and other similar items. Appointment recommended.

Preserves the history of the 14th Regiment New York State Militia and the American Civil War. Living history presentations are done at schools, historical societies, museums, parades and other events. Sets up a camp that resembles one from the Civil War, does drill and firing exhibitions and runs through a brief drill using wooden muskets. Restores grave sites of the Veterans of the 14th Regiment N.Y.S.M. All presentations are given in full civil war uniform.

Maintains medians and traffic islands, areas that are less than one acre in size and have visual, civic, cultural, and historic importance.

More than 80,000 books, 125+ periodicals, large-print books, audio-visual materials including CD's, CD-ROMS, CD's-on-tapes, magazine subscription and puppets to borrow. Online catalog, numerous databases including Ancestry, free wi-fi and public access computers. Libby ebooks, Freegal streaming music, Kanopy streaming videos, Flipster electronic magazines.

Preserves and exhibits local history and presents programs on local history of North Great River. Call to set up appointments. The Society also prints a Quarterly Newsletter.