Southampton (Images of America) by Mary Cummings

By Mary Cummings

Settled in 1640 by means of a gaggle of Puritans from Massachusetts, Southampton, big apple, replaced little or no until eventually the railroad line from big apple urban reached the village in 1870. Then, with day-by-day trains touring east, filthy rich New Yorkers have been surprised to find a bucolic backwater simply hours away. by way of the flip of the century, Southampton used to be ranked one of the most trendy lodges at the East Coast. Over two hundred images, many infrequent and formerly unpublished, illustrate the alterations that got here to agrarian Southampton as successive waves of summer time citizens arrived, first to stick in farmhouses refurbished as boarding homes, then construction their very own sprawling summer time �cottages.� Drawn from neighborhood ancient information and personal collections, those pictures will exhibit how small-town existence persevered through the years in a spot now world-renowned for its specific golf equipment, grand mansions, and megastar residents.

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