Selections From My Postcard Collection
These pages contain scans of old postcards I have collected of places I have lived and liked.

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Smithtown, NY - Page 2

Sources of history include Colonel Rockwell's Scrap-book. Short Histories: Dwellings; Mills; Churches; Taverns; 1665 - 1845. Township of Smithtown; Suffolk County, Long Island, N. Y. Edited by Charlotte Adams Ganz, The Smithtown Historical Society, 1968

Left: Main Street. The hotel building at the right is the same as the building on left in the card on the right. Right: Trolley tracks, H. G. Grand Restaurant and Hotel, a Mobel gas station and a used car dealer.

Left: On the left is the Methodist Episcopal Church, a store with a sign that says Bakery and a garage. Right: "Main Street, Looking West." This is across the street from the card at left. The first building on the left is next to the church.

"Main Street, Smithtown Branch" mailed in 1961, but obviously printed much earlier. The marks on the sign over the Federal Title Guarantee Company on the roof are from the cancellation and couldn't be removed.

Both cards say "Main St., Smithtown Branch, L. I." Left: There are no signs to help identify this card. It was probably printed in the early 1920's, but the picture might be older. Right: On the left is a sign for Ice Cream in this card mailed in 1911.

"Presbyterian Church, Smithtown Branch, Long Island, N. Y." This card was probably printed after World War I. Additions have been made, but the church is still on 25/25A. Click here for a picture taken in July of 2003.

"Presbyterian Church, Smithtown Branch" This postcard was printed before 1907 (undivided back printed in German), but not mailed until 1938. It shows what is now route 25A as it heads east to St. James as a dirt road. RIGHT: an portion of a Belcher Hyde 1917 map of Smithtown Branch showing the location of the Presbyterian Church and orginal location of the Smithtown Library (see below). Click for a larger view of the map. Note: this is how the intersection used to be.

The Smithtown Library was built as shown in 1912 across 25A (see map above) from it's current location. It was expanded after being moved in 1952. Right: This Feather photo shows a number of differences in the background.

Left: Hauppauge Road (spelled Happague). For another site's page on Hauppauge, click here. Right: "Washington's Quarters, During War." This is the Blydenburgh house, which stood on the Smithtown Village Green. It was torn down in 1907. George Washington stopped here in April 1790, not during the Revolutionary War.

"Judge J. L. Smith Homestead" mailed in 1908 by Mrs. E. R. Case with a note on the front "This is my cousin's place." The oldest part of the house, at 205 Middle Country Road, was built before 1768. It is still there. Right: Elks Restaurant.

Far Left: Conklin And Jayne General Store. It was located on 25A to the west of where Rt. 111 now ends at 25A.
Left & Right: "Central Hotel, Smithtown Branch, L. I." It was on Jericho Turnpike (also known as Main Street) at the intersection of what is now Lawrence Avenue.

"Samoset Park - Refreshment Stand on Route 25A between Smithtown and St. James, Long Island, N. Y. - Specializing in Frozen Custard and Home Made Ice Cream." In more recent years it was a pizza stand and now, as you can see in the July 2003 picture, it's a clam bar.

Yellow Top Farm Stand, Smithtown By-pass at Mr. Pleasant Road. "Open Daily and Sunday, Spring - Summer - Fall. The Barbato Brothers." This is the way it originally looked. It has been torn down.

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