by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Apr 14, 2021
There are people that you meet who leave a lasting impression. They don’t need to be a relative or teacher, they can be someone you met casually but repeatedly, yet they are firmly engraved in your psyche. Two such people in Hampton Bays were Lenny and Erwin Thompson,...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Mar 11, 2021
As it is once again Women’s History Month, I figured I’d highlight a woman whose name may be familiar to you. Sorry to say, we don’t know much about her, but we do know what she did. She wrote books – books about the history of Good Ground, as well as Hampton...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Feb 11, 2021
Prior to February 9th, 1870 there was even less being done about it. That was the official date that the U.S. National Weather Service began. While Thomas Jefferson was said to have purchased both a thermometer and a barometer – one of the few in our fledgling...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Oct 12, 2020
As historians (not sure when that happened), one of our objectives is for readers to see the past, while they are living in the present. What do you see when you look at the Coast Guard Station? Do you see the current buildings? Or perhaps you envision yourself as...
by Hampton Bays Historical Society | Oct 1, 2020
Back in June we shared the story of the Texas Tower tragedy. To briefly refresh, Texas Tower #4 was a radar tower built by the US Air Force approximately 70 miles nearly straight south of Hampton Bays; yes, in the middle of the ocean. Standing on the seabed, it...
