Comment: Looking north. Great South Bay is at the bottom of the picture.

Comment: Looking north from Beaver Dam Road

Comment: Trout pond on Beaver Dam Creek, looking north from South Country Road

Comment: This is a picture of Beaver Dam Creek looking south just south of South Country Road, as it exits the small "vest Pocket" park at South Country and Fire Place Neck Roads. The Brook Store is just to the right

Comment: This picture is of the mouth of Beaver Dam Creek as it enters the Great South Bay. The house is the "Lighthouse" (Br35)

Comment: Looking South from Beaver Dam Road

Comment: Looking south from Beaver Dam Road. A copy of a painting done by G. B. Marschall. There is virtually no change in the view then as compared to now. Image provided by Richard Beyer

Comment: Looking east on South Country Road and Beaver Dam Creek. One of the oldest pictures so far found of the South Country and Fire Place Neck Roads corner. Notation on the back: "Taken by J. [Jake] Valentine about 1888 "Original corner "The old Ketcham house [Br6A] which was moved t (sic) is now ('63) Mrs. Desmond Nelson's "(later Mr. Allardt's) 1947 "Edna V. Bruce"

Comment: Looking west on South Country Rd. at Beaver Dam Creek. One of the oldest pictures so far found of South Country Road at Beaver Dam Creek. The camera seems to be positioned about at the flag pole in the Memorial Triangle. On back: "Taken about 1888 or 1890 JLV [Jake Valentine] "South Country road "Nelly Scott and Daisy Scott Riens on bridge "Edna V. [Edna Valentine Bruce] near water"

Comment: .. at Beaver Dam Creek, looking westerly.
This postcard photo is later than the one above (202). Notice the telephone pole to the left in this view, which is absent in the previous view.

Comment:

Looking west. On one copy of this post card it reads: "McKeown sisters. Circa 1905."

This is one of my favorite pictures of the Hamlet -- catching, I suppose, my romantic view of what the Hamlet must have been like at the beginning of the 20th century.

Rick Frazier comments on the picture: " I have been told it’s a photo of my grandmother Elsie McKeown and her sister, both of which grew up on Bay Avenue in Brookhaven. Their parents were William and Anna Knies McKeown. I think some of the relatives, Bulls I think, still live in the area, possibly in the same house. I was shown this photo when I was younger and told it was on the cover, or somewhere in, Harpers Magazine early in the last century, but I have lost touch with it.

25 Mar 2007

Comment: Beaver Dam Creek was also known as Valentine's Brook, after the proprietor of the Brookhaven General Store at the time. I think this picture is probably one of the the old Miller trout ponds, this one on the south side of South Country Road, looking north. South Country Road appears to be curving to the left, and a large sign can barely be seen – the only word I can make out is "… East" (you have to blow up the picture to see it). Notice the dike along the right side of the brook, containing the pond. If I have the location correct, the Miller house (Br30C) would be to the right and the Brook Store (Br07) would be to the left. The Miller trout pond is no longer present. The area is now the small park at the intersection of South Country and Fire Place Neck Roads.

Comment: Looking north. Beaver Dam Creek was also known as Valentine's Brook, after the owner of the nearby Brook Store. This is nearly the same view as Image ID 145. Post card is dated 20 August 1910

Comment: The punt must have been a standard feature of the pond, as it appears in a number of pictures (see Image ID 252 and 145).

Comment: I have a gut feeling that this is of the upper trout pond, north of South Country Road. See modern photo, ID 171, above.

Comment: Fire Place Creek was another name for Beaver Dam Creek. One of the few old pictures found so far showing the lower reaches of the creek. Note the sail boat near the center.

Comment: Caption reads: "Fire Place Neck Creek looking south where it is crossed by Beaver Dam Road." From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse."

Comment: Looking west at Beaver Dam Road. Nearly the same view as Image ID 135.

Comment: In this post card, the Fraser-Champlain house (left, Historic Structure ID Br29) and the Badetty-Petretti House (right, Br29A) are clearly visible. The "ancient oak tree" which long stood in front of the St. James Church (Br28A) is visible center left; the church itself is barely visible to the left of the Badetty house. The post card was addressed to Mr. Harry Morrow in Philadelphia, from Mrs. William Robinson ("Having a dandy time.") Harry Morrow may be Harry D. Morrow (b. 1884), son of Thomas Irwin Morrow, Sr. and Elizabeth Mary Gahan. This postcard, acquired through an Ebay auction in June 2004, was not found in the Post-Morrow Foundation collection.

Comment: Probably looking north. The bridge is Beaver Dam Road

Comment:

Probably looking north from the Beaver Dam Road bridge, and likely at low tide. Compare to modern Image ID 170, above, which was taken at high tide.

The seller of this post card when auctioned on Ebay dated it 1924, perhaps from a post mark. I've bid on it, but it is not yet won. (1/25/2005)