Tag: Culper Spy Ring
First Valentine In The Country Given On Long Island
British Commander Lt. Col. John Graves Simcoe, while occupying Oyster Bay's Raynham Hall, sent love poems to Sarah Townsend, perhaps the very first Valentine in the country.
Top 10 Most-Read Long Island Feature Stories of 2014
Comics, cronuts and celebrities, oh my!
Revolutionary Minds: Long Island’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence
“You don’t have to go to Virginia or Massachusetts to learn the history of our Founding Fathers—they were discussing the future of the country right here!”
How L.I.’s Culper Spy Ring Helped Washington Beat the British
The Culper Spy Ring would come to be regarded as the most effective of any intelligence-gathering operation on either side during the Revolutionary War.
