In 1946, Paul Robeson, world-renown African American baritone, actor, and social activist came to Huntington to perform a concert at Toaz Junior High School for the benefit of the Bethel A.M.E. Church’s planned Community Center and Nursery.
February 2022 – April 2022 Celebrate Black History Month with the Huntington Historical Society! Our new exhibition, “Highlights from Huntington’s African American History,” shares the story of such prominent figures and organizations as Booker T. Washington, Samuel Ballton, John and Alice Coltrane, the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Evergreen
January 12th is Pharmacists Recognition Day and January 19th is the anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919, or Prohibition. The relation between the two is quite interesting.
Crayola Crayons first made in 1903 by Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. The first erector set introduced in 1913 by A.C. Gilbert. Raggedy Ann dolls came about in 1915 when newspaper cartoonist Johnny Gruelle reproduced them from a doll he had made for his daughter. Lincoln Logs were introduced in 1916 by John Lloyd Wright.
Thanksgiving menus in late 19th and early 20th century Huntington were not that different from our contemporary meals; turkey and stuffing, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie.
Washington’s belief that African Americans could advance themselves through education in the trades and industrial arts prompted him to establish the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881.
The name Highhold was inspired by the view that the over one-hundred-acre property provided from the Long Island Sound to the Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly after the Civil War, baseball’s popularity rapidly spread throughout Long Island. Many towns, including Brooklyn and Queens, (Nassau County was part of Queens until 1899), formed their own baseball clubs.
June 2019 – August 2020 In honor of the bicentennial (200th anniversary) of Walt Whitman’sbirth, is “Chasing Whitman: Huntington’s Prodigal Son”, which explores Whitman’s legacy in Huntington.
The Town of Huntington, as we know it today, extends from the Nassau County line to the Smithtown line in Commack. And, from the Long Island Sound on the north to the Babylon Town Line in the south. But, it wasn’t always that way.
According to The Long Island Museum’s 2019 exhibit “Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island,” in 1749 14% of the population of Suffolk County was comprised of enslaved persons.