Miller Place-Mount Sinai Historical Society

The Miller Place -- Mount Sinai Historical Society collects, preserves, and shares the history of Long Island with emphasis on Miller Place and Mount Sinai reflecting the close ties the two communities have shared since the 1600s. It promotes and encourages historical research using its Archive of materials dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries related to the development of the area.

The collection includes postcards from the 1890s; photographs of buildings, and families; administrative documents on local education policies including an early 20th century logs of parents and the number of school age children per household and the payment/receipts to teachers. Documents on local families include deeds, wills, letters and property surveys. Significant holdings include account books of prominent residents, among them Samuel Davis ((1750s), Timothy Norton (1840/1850s), and the Civil War papers of Dr. CKS Millard which includes Account of Private Physician Under Contract papers, Report of sick Contraband Hospital, orders from superiors on his assignments, descriptions of some of the wounds. Charles’ non-military documents include four lectures from a lecture series on orthopedic injuries to the Medico-Chirurgical Society, in Louisville, Kentucky (date unknown), and a lecture on the problems of the drinking of apple cider (date unknown). A 1950’s spread for Life Magazine of the local school room by photographer Eve Arnold is also an archival treasure.

Archives Hours: By Appointment

Address: P.O. Box 651, Miller Place, New York 11764

Website: http://mpmshistoricalsociety.org

Contact: (631) 476-5742

info@mpmshistoricalsociety.org

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