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The building on the southwest corner of Front and Main Streets in Greenport, with upstairs apartments and retail stores below, is still referred to as “the Mills Building” by most North Forker’s who have lived here 30+ years. Here are two earlier views of the building.

CORRECTION: Last month’s cover photo of the Southold Train Station is the view looking west (not east as stated.)

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I’d like to thank former Southold Historical Society Director Geoffrey K. Fleming who wrote his April 8, 2004 Suffolk Times article titled: Israel Peck and his six daughters. I learned plenty. I went ahead and reworked his entry but came across some other helpful information that’s even more correct. Israel Peck beautified Main Road by planting elm trees. The Last Hobble with the Old Traveler Boys column from the October 28, 1898 Long Island Traveler says that: In 1857, Israel Peck planted a portion of his property formerly owned by the Overton family with a nursery that consisted of fruit and other ornamental trees. Mr. Peck also planted “rows of elms and maples

that now beautify our streets and afford grateful shade in the hot days of summer.” If a person wished to set out a tree on the highway in front of his lot, he would donate it if the planter could not afford to pay. Becky Terry reminded us in her Oaklawn Nostalgia article: Oaklawn Avenue has a history of its own. Israel Peck built a half-mile racetrack near Jockey Creek on Oaklawn Avenue in 1872 called the Spruce Park Trotting Course. On a wide lawn that occupied some 60 acres shaded by oak trees, picnics and celebrations were held. Hence the new street leading to the area was called Oaklawn. Harvest Home fairs were famous and held on the

1955 photograph of the Peck House, Main Road, Southold, courtesy of the Whitaker Historical Collection.

The Peck Familyby Dan McCarthy

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Peck property. Those fairs were the brainchild of Israel Peck.

Bits And Pieces∙ Israel Peck was one of the first trustees of Southold Savings Bank.

{Southold Savings Bank was incorporated April 7, 1858. Then there was the North Fork Bank. Now Capital One is there!}

∙ November 27, 1873 Long Island Traveler: AD ~ Israel Peck and Albert A. Folk placed an ad regarding the availability of H. W. John’s Asbestos Roofing.

∙ August 28, 1879 Long Island Traveler: AD ~ “Pure Cider and Vinegar In quantities to suit purchasers; for sale by Israel Peck, Southold, L.I.”

∙ June 24, 1880 Long Island Traveler: AD ~ “Israel Peck Proprietor of the Suffolk County Nursery, Southold, N.Y. Fruit, Shade, and Evergreen and Deciduous Ornamental Trees, for sale.”

∙ December 24, 1880 Long Island Traveler: “B. T. Payne and Israel Peck deserve the thanks of the villagers for plowing snow from walks so nicely on Wednesday morning.”

“I Love to Cry At Weddings!” ~ “Home Is Where the Heart Is” Israel Peck married Nancy Halsey Glover around 1840 and they had six daughters. He built his home in Southold in 1852 and it was known for its dance parties. “Peck and a Half of Peck Girls” ~ “Six Bells of Southold” ~

Ah! But Were They? - Picture the Thought! ∙ The eldest Peck daughter was Emma. She married village dentist Dr. Jonathan Green Huntting. “The good doctor” had a practice in Manhattan as well as Huntington and then he came to Southold. Their house was “located opposite the end of Oaklawn Avenue on Main Road.” The Whitaker Historical Collection has Dr. Jonathan G. {Green} Huntting Scrapbooks! The 19 volumes include various original clippings and letters as well as other Southold Town-related memorabilia from the 1850s to

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the early 1900s. So many subjects and topics are covered; i.e. the Civil War and tragedies of the 1900s like the Titanic and the Lusitania, as well as “proposals, votes and dedication of the Southold School,” plus plenty, plenty more. There are original newspaper clippings, advertisements, as well as cartoons. ∙ Sarah was the next eldest who married Darius Wheeler. Sarah and Darius’ only daughter was Alice, who married local doctor John W. Stokes. Sarah lived until the age of 91. ∙ Anna married “one of the most successful men of Southold:” H. {Henry} Howard Huntting. He was a local agent for the Long Island Rail Road and also served the Southold Savings Bank as secretary and treasurer. Anna died at the age of 49.

According to the Southold SPLIA (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities) volume, the Huntting house on Hortons Lane is a two-story, L-shaped Italianate with a low gable roof and wrap-around porch. The front door is original with round-topped glass panels located on the south side of the porch. The building is circa 1873.

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Southold resident Peggy Murphy lives in the H. Howard Hunttting home on Hortons Lane. This extraordinary school teacher, who is a member of the Southold Historical Society, was on the board of directors with C.A.S.T. (Community Action of Southold Town). Peggy is a participant too with the Southold Town 375th Anniversary Committee, just like she was a member of the 1990 Southold Town’s 350th Anniversary Committee, where she helped arrange events. She was highly involved with the Southold Sunshine Committee. For 20 years, she organized the Silversmith’s Corner Summer Concert Series schedules that were held at the gazebo on Youngs Avenue and the Main Road in Southold on Wednesday evenings. She has an annual Christmas display in her house with Department 56 holiday snow village buildings. Peggy Murphy truly is remarkable.

Six Peck daughters photo, scanned from a metal plate courtesy of the Southold Historical Society: Caroline Peck Lowerre (1848-1926), Isabelle Peck Terry (1851-1929), Anna Peck Huntting (1846-1895), Emma Peck Huntting (1841-1924), Sarah Peck Wheeler (1843-1934), Lucy Peck Conklin (1853-1934).

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Keeping an Accurate Record ~ Speaking Chronologically!

The H. Howard Huntting Scrapbooks were organized by Henry Howard Huntting and they are in the Whitaker Historical Collection! Eleven volumes of newspaper clippings of local happenings in the area of Southold from 1753 to 1928 are interwoven. There are also two handwritten indexes that accompany the set.

Dr. Jonathan Green Huntting was born March 15, 1836 and died on December 28, 1919. Dr. Huntting was the brother of H. Howard Huntting.

These three photos were taken courtesy of the Jonathan G. Huntting Scrapbook Vol. 2 from the Whitaker Historical Collection.

Israel Peck was born on December 17, 1814 in Greenwich, CT and he died October 30, 1881. His wife, Nancy Halsey Glover Peck, was born on November 8, 1817 in New York, NY, and she died on January 3, 1893.

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Civil War Veteran and Southold resident Corporal Edward F. {Foster} Huntting was cousin to Henry Howard Huntting. ~ But that story some other time!

∙ The Peck daughter named Caroline married Abraham Lowerre. Here is

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just some information taken from the Southold Historical Society website Houses 2000 link where it discusses the Abram F. {Folk} Lowerre house: During the Civil War, Abram Lowerre served in the 47th New York State Militia. Between 1873 and 1874 he served as an officer (Second Assistant) of the Flushing Fire Department. He married his wife in 1870 and by the late 1870s they were living in Southold. In 1891 Abram Lowerre was elected as a director of the Southold Savings Bank, where he would later serve as assistant treasurer until his resignation due to ill health in 1914. The house he and his wife occupied, located on the east side of Hortons Lane, was probably built during the 1860s/1870s (possibly for Lowerre), and is of a simplified Greek Revival style that was once very common across eastern Long Island. For many years the house was occupied by the North Fork Parish Outreach thrift store, until its closure c. 2009-2010. The building had been owned for many years by George C. Stankevich of East Hampton. [Editor’s note: The house was recently purchased and is currently under renovations. The original clapboard siding was uncovered and the house is being beautifully restored.]

According to Southold SPLIA, the Abraham Lowerre house is listed as a “Contributing two-story cross gable c. 1870 Italianate frame residence. Distinctive elements include wide frieze, built-in gutters,and standing seam metal roof. Contributing barn and garage at rear of property.”

Definitely Not A “Fly-By-Night” Guy!Award-winning Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) local pilot Gerald Lang is the present owner of the Abraham Lowerre House. This builder is associated with Aleet Enterprises. I extend a true round of applause to him and wish him kind regards with the upkeep and remodeling of this true treasure! ∙ Isabelle Peck married William H. Terry. (The Terry name has “ancient ties to the village.”) William and his brother were partners in a furniture and undertaking business in Southold. William also served the Southold Savings Bank as trustee. ∙ Lucy was the youngest Peck girl. She married Abram Conklin, a minister of the Southold First Universalist Church. “Conklin is remembered as the most beloved ministers who served at the Universalist church.” As a matter of fact, he served from 1879 to 1882 and then from 1917 to 1931.

Keeping on Track ~ The Family That Stays Together! ~ Thanks a Lot!We are reminded by Peter Stevens in the April 14, 1966 Traveler Watchman that Southold’s

H. (Henry) Howard Huntting died at the age of 87 on March 27, 1931. He was one of Southold’s oldest and best known residents. “If he had survived until April 1st, he would have been connected with the Southold Savings Bank for fifty years.” Photo courtesy of the Whitaker Historical Collection.

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Main Road had some changes that April when the Israel Peck house was “razed to make way for a branch office of the Security National Bank.” Then Chemical Bank took over. Then there was also Fleet Bank. Now the site is where Bank of America is located! The Israel Peck family is buried in the Willow Hill Cemetery on the Main Road in Southold.

The Whitaker Historical Collection is located in the Southold Free Library on the second floor in the Lucy Hallock Folk Room and is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 1 to 4 p.m. or by appointment. Staff members Melissa Andruski and Dan McCarthy will be available to help.

Southold Historical Society Headquarters is located in the Prince Building on the Main Road in Southold just east of the Main Street Grill. Dan McCarthy is available on Tuesdays from 9-3. Visit on the web at www.southoldhistoricalsociety.

Albert Albertson Folk, the husband of Lucy Hallock Folk

Mr. Folk was born in New York City on January 17, 1842. He died February 27, 1924. Albert’s uncle was Israel Peck. Lucy Hallock Folk was the sister of Joseph Nelson Hallock. Lucy Hallock Folk was born in New York City on September 13, 1869 and died on June 14, 1946. August 12, 1954 was the Dedication of the historic Lucy Hallock Folk Room. The Lucy Hallock Folk Room is named in honor of Southold Free Library’s first librarian. Photo, courtesy of the Whitaker Historical Collection.

An earlier view of the Peck House.

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