West Broadway, Seaford, in 1910

More of the 1910 census of Seaford:
These are the family names listed for West Broadway, wherever in Seaford that street was:
Smith, Mongomery, Mack, Seaman, Condit, Jung, Eldert, Verity, Albro, Rhodes, Stable, Custis, Ketcham, James, Wilson, Duryea, Weiner.  Many of these family names are repeated on other streets of Seaford.
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A count of the occupations listed in the census of West Broadway shows six farmers, two painters, two pond keepers at the city works, two carpenters, two laborers, one foreman at the railroad station, one machinist (locomotive), one grocery clerk, one bayman, one author, one chicken raiser, one retail dealer of fish.  This catalog of one street's inhabitants could be misleading, as the Seaford population topped six hundred, and other streets had more baymen.  I would have to do a full analysis of the census.

U. S. Census, Seaford in 1910

I spent a few minutes in the Central Avenue, Massapequa Library, today looking at the 1910 U. S. Census of the Village of Seaford, "not incorporated."  The census carries the heading "22 and 23 April 1910, Hempstead District 1, [enumeration] district 1103.  There are twelve pages or so, fifty on each, giving Seaford a population of about 615.  My tabulation may be inexact.  These are the streets, listed by population:

176 residents of Washington Avenue

159 residents of Merrick Road
75 residents of Seamans Neck Road

61 residents of West Broadway

61 residents of A Lane

41 residents of Jackson Avenue.

20 residents of Waverly Avenue

10 residents of Hickory Avenue

10 residents of Lane

2 residents of Railroad Avenue

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More than 90% of the residents were born in the state of New York of a father born in the state of New York.  There are a few from Germany, Scotland, England, Italy (9 residents of "Lane"), and one family from Norway.

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I wonder where the street called West Broadway was.  Maybe the two lanes are among the present lanes south of Merrick Road.  Waverly Avenue was not extended west until the 1920's, I believe.

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Some of the Merrick Road families in 1910 were Verity, Pettit, Updike, Bryant, Mahon, Baldwin, Van Nostrand, Wilson, Smith, Valentine, Morgan (William 28, wife 26), Southard (John, retired wheelwright, Catherine, Mary, 32, law clerk, perhaps the 1930 proprietor of the funeral home), Rhineslat, Magnus, Baxter, Radloff, Einstein, Norman, Hewitt, Rohr, Morgan (another William), Powell, Reigle, McHugh.  (Again, corrections are welcome.)
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Seaford alumni have put together in guestbook format a series of posts, memories of growing up in Seaford.  Much of it describes the stores on Merrick Road and their proprietors.  The link is broken. There are forty pages of marvelous posts.  Is there another such memory collection with photographs about Seaford?
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The main page for Seaford alumni is here.  It is a great presentation!
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Often house numbers were introduced simultaneously with house-to-house delivery of mail.  However, the four-digit numbers prevalent in Seaford, I suspect, were introduced by the Town of Hempstead in the late 1940's.  They march along at the rate of 2 numbers every 20 feet.  Maybe they are based on the eastward progress of numbers from the center of Hempstead on the Hempstead-Bethpage Turnpike (NY 24).  Would anyone know in what year these four-digit numbers were introduced in Seaford?
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An aside: In Bellmore, on Oak Street one can observe the mingling of westward three-digit numbers (presumably the original ones) and eastward four-digit house numbers.

Seaford station in snow, 1.21.2011

Because the community now known as Seaford was along Merrick Road when the LIRR came through in the 1860's, we gained a park, courtesy of the Town of Hempstead.  The Seaford Wellness Council added a gazebo.

 Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.  Photos from the 20th century may be found here.

Memories of Merrick Road and Seaford, N.Y.

Seaford alumni have put together in guestbook format a series of posts, memories of growing up in Seaford.  The link is here, and there are forty pages of marvelous posts.  Is there another such memory collection with photographs about Seaford?
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The main page for Seaford alumni is here.  It is a great presentation!

Snow on Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The skies cleared at dawn, and we found about nine inches of snow on the lawn.

During the Christmas Octave: Snow!

Somewhere a newborn lies under a blanket.

Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.

Dawn on the 28th.

The 30th.

Noon on the 28th.

December 30th.

The Seaford fire house on Southard Avenue.  Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.

Drifts I measured were about 16 inches, but the lawn only four.

 By New Year's Eve, the snowman was already tipping.

Christmas in Seaford

At St. William the Abbot

At St. Michael and All Angels

At Our Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church

New Director at the Seaford Public Library

I missed the library board meeting last night, but today's Patch, linked here, has a well-written article about the retirement of our friendly, helpful, and capable Library Director.

Veterans' Day, 2010, in Seaford, New York

Thursday, November 11, 2010. -- Veterans' Day Ceremony was held at 10:45 a.m. at the Seaford American Legion post, 2301 Penatiquit Avenue, Seaford. The post is named for Edwin Welch, who lost his life near the Meuse River on November 8, 1918, three days before the Armistice. An excellent biography of Edwin Welch appears in the Wantagh-Seaford Citizen, 11.4.2010, page 11.
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Autumn in Seaford

Scenes near Seaford Creek, Jackson Avenue, and John Lane.
Clicking on any photo will enlarge it.

Election Day, 11.2.2010. Cuomo vs. Paladino Results

This year, the election coverage has facilitated some analysis of votes cast in Seaford, as Newsday.com gave the results of the governor's race on a map which displayed the election districts and the unofficial totals for each ED. As the boundaries of the various entities of Seaford are not always contiguous, even the following description is open to argument. For example, the east border of the Seaford zip code 11783 includes part of the Town of Oyster Bay north of Ontario Avenue. What follows is an attempt to describe the November, 2010, gubernatorial election results in Seaford.
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Beginning at the bay and moving north to Merrick Road, from about Cedar Street to Seaman's Creek, there are four ED's, which Paladino took 993-873.
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Between Merrick Road and Sunrise Highway from about Oakland Avenue to Tackapausa are four ED's, which Paladino took 659-558.
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Between Sunrise Highway and Jerusalem Avenue from NY 135 to the town line are four ED's, which chose Andrew Cuomo 830-786.
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North of Jerusalem Avenue towards where Seaman's Neck Road leaves the Town of Hempstead are five ED's, which chose Andrew Cuomo 841-734. The Seaford Post Office continues a short distance beyond that northern point. The school district north of Jerusalem Avenue is Levittown UFSD 5. South of Jerusalem Avenue, the district is Seaford UFSD 6.
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In the areas I have included as Seaford, Paladino beat Andrew Cuomo by 71 votes. Other candidates received 208. Total votes cast were 6,482. In my ED, the percentage of registered voters who actually cast votes was about 43%, a rate similar to that of Nassau County.
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Thanks for voting! Thanks to the courteous and competent staff that ran the polls!



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