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Announcing the publication of Jericho: the History of a
Long Island Hamlet. This informative book was written
by our Local History Librarian, Betsey Murphy. It begins
with the formation of Long Island in the Ice Age and
continues with the Native American inhabitants, Dutch and
English colonists and Quaker settlers. It ends with
Jericho’s transformation to a suburban community. Copies of
the book are available for a $20 donation. |
JERICHO’S LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION
The collection consists of more than one thousand books related to Jericho and its environs dating from the 1700s to the present. We have a small collection of rare books that range from a first
edition of Christopher Morley's Pleasure; The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks, 1832; Nathaniel Prime’s History of Long Island, from its first settlement by Europeans to the year 1845, to A Memoir of Anna Willis, (late of Jericho) by her father Thomas Willis, 1854.
There are more than one thousand paintings, watercolors and sketches and photographs of local structures, maps, people and events in the collection.
Magazine subscriptions include LI Forum, Long Island Historical Journal, Nassau County Historical Society Journal, Journal of Long Island History, Suffolk County Historical Society Register, SPLIA’s Preservation Notes, and The Oyster Bay Historical Society’s The Freeholder. Our newspapers are the Syosset/Jericho Tribune and the Jericho News Journal.
Forty archival boxes house manuscripts, diaries, letters, pamphlets, documents, memorabilia and clippings.
We have twenty oral histories of local people on tape, as well as transcribed to paper. There are text and database genealogies of several prominent local families.
I will be happy to assist anyone with research on local history topics. Please call to ascertain that I have the proper information and am available to assist you.
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Jericho's History
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