Smithtown, New York
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Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population was 116,296 at the 2020 Census.
Town Hall
Statue of the Smithtown Bull that Richard Smith was said to have ridden in order to claim the land that became the Town of Smithtown
Smithtown in 1931
Smithtown Performing Arts Center
Lion Gardiner
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Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island. He had been working in the Netherlands and was hired to construct fortifications on the Connecticut River, for the Connecticut Colony. His legacy includes Gardiners Island, which is held by his descendants.
Print of the Lion Gardiner House, Easthampton (Childe Hassam – 1920)
The tomb of Lion Gardiner in East Hampton, New York was built in 1886 and designed by James Renwick Jr. It depicts him in recumbent effigy. (Photo, April 2006)