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DOWN THE WAYS THE WOODEN SHIP ERA WALKING TOUR
Guided tour with historian Bev Tyler explores the history of shipbuilding in Setauket, NY. Guests will learn about shipbuilders, ship captains, and families prominent in Setauket’s maritime history. The walking tour explores the Dyer’s Neck - East Setauket Historic Shipbuilding District where coast-wise and ocean-going ships were built and where these local families, lived, worked and died.
Along the route, guests will see the carpenter shop where the construction planning took place and visit the area where completed ships wintered over and where the bones of these ships rest today. This tour will be conducted at low tide so that the bones of the schooners will be uncovered in Scott’s Cove.
As a special treat you will see the home where Benjamin Tallmadge, General Washington's intelligence chief was born as well as the location of the house where Anna Smith Strong lived during the Revolutionary War and where she setup her clothesline code to let Culper Spy Ring chief Abraham Woodhull know where Caleb Brewster was hiding with his whaleboat to bring spy messages across Long Island Sound to General Washington.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour start time.
Location: Tours leave from the Brookhaven Town Dock on Shore Road in East Setauket.
GPS users, enter: 58 Shore Road, East Setauket NY 11733
$25 per person
$20 members
Walk Through History with Revolutionary War Spy & Setauket Farmer: Abraham Woodhull
Long before Setauket became the quiet village we know today, its fields, ponds, churches, and winding roads formed the backdrop of one of the most remarkable intelligence networks in American history.
Join historian Beverly Tyler for a Walk Through History with Setauket Farmer and Revolutionary War Spy: Abraham Woodhull, a 90-minute guided walking tour that follows the places where everyday life and extraordinary history intersected.
Together, you'll explore the Setauket Village Green, Patriot's Rock, the historic grist mill, centuries-old churches and burial grounds, and the nature preserve that was once the Woodhull family farm. Along the way, Bev will reveal how the landscape itself became an ally to the Culper Spy Ring and why these familiar places played such an important role in the fight for American independence.
More than a tour, this is an opportunity to slow down, look closer, and discover that the stories which shaped our nation are still written across the fields beneath your feet.
Saturday, September 19
2:00 PM
Location: tours begin and end at Caroline Episcopal Church: 1 Dyke Road, Setauket NY 11733
please arrive 15 minutes before tour time
$25 per person
$20 TVHS members
Beverly C. Tyler is a writer, photographer and Historian for the Three Village Historical Society & Museum. He is author of Discover Setauket, Brookhaven’s Original Settlement, Walk Through History, A Guided Walking Tour of Brookhaven’s Original Settlement in Setauket and other books. Bev writes a bi-weekly History Close at Hand, column for The Village Times Herald.