Re: Jane Hulse of Oceanside, NY
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Jane Hulse of Oceanside, NY
4/21/01
What years did the Hulse Farm exist? I had a teacher named Mrs. Hulse who taught
fourth or fifth grade at what was the Terrell
Avenue School (#2) in Oceanside, NY, during the 1950's at least.The principal was Florence A. Smith for whom the school is now named.
I do not recall Mrs. Hulse's first name nor do I know if she lived in Oceanside.Contact the school district.
The Oceanside Library has a history of the community written by Dr. Walter S. Boardman,
a past Superintendent of Schools in Oceanside.Other materials, including old issues of The Beacon, a newspaper, are held by the library.I think it still holds the Oceanside Historical Society's collections. Try the Rockville Centre Public Library and the Freeport Memorial Library for historical collections and collections of other old newspapers such as The Picket, The Southside Observer, and its successor papers.
These communities also have historical societies.Freeport's covers a large area, not just its own community.There were land trades that took place in the past between Oceanside and Rockville Centre. Addresses were changed.I know that some old community directories are held in both community libraries.The Yellow Book Directory company is located in RVC, but not very cooperative about letting people use old directories.The Great Neck Public Library has a collection of many directories from communities other than its own that date back to 1914, I believe.The Queensborough Public Library also has old directories including many for southwestern Nassau County (Oceanside would be considered to be in this geographic locale).The Long Beach Library has a collection of old newspapers that also cover this area, to some extent, because the communities were very interdependent in the past.When the bathing pavilion was opened in Long Beach, a barrier island, the street that had been changed to The Ocean Side Road, from Christian Road in Hempstead and Christian Hook Road when it reached that community (now Oceanside), was renamed Long Beach Road so that people could follow it out to the beach. Oceanside Road now begins in Rockville Centre as a fork off Long Beach Road and continues to nearly the southern border of Oceanside.Oceanside had been known as Christian Hook in colonial times.It became Oceanville when a company of that name that sold seafood, especially oysters to New York [city] fish purveyors, developed piers and what was the bay and channel waterfront area.Fish, oysters, and farm produce were brought to Rockville Centre to the Southern Railroad (now the Long Island Railroad) to be brought to markets in Manhattan.Eventually, the community was named Oceanside.Beachgoers and others took small boats and ferries across to Long Beach until bridges for traffic and trains were built.Hofstra University's Long Island Studies Institute and the Nassau County Museum office, both located in Hofstra's Library Technical Services building on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead, NY, also have materials about the community.Historians are available to assist with research.
I do not think I know where Hulse farm was located.If you have not been to Oceanside at all or of late, the acres and acres of open fields and farms that I recall, even across from the Terrell Avenue School, are long gone.The Gunther farm, where fields of carnations were grown when I was a child, was
for sale last year and may have been turned into another patch of unneeded stores by now! It was probably the last farm in the community.
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Re: Jane Hulse of Oceanside, NY
4/28/01