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Wantagh Elementar y 5 th Graders A Digital Tour of Wantagh’s Historic Sites

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Wantagh Elementary 5 th Graders. A Digital Tour of Wantagh’s Historic Sites. The Jones- Dengler Farm House. The Jones- Dengler Farm House. Built in the 1700s Home to the Jones family in the 1800s Expanded in 1875 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Wantagh Elementary 5 th  Graders

Wantagh

Elementary

5th Graders

A Digital Tour of Wantagh’s Historic Sites

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The Jones-Dengler Farm House

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• Built in the 1700s

• Home to the Jones family in the 1800s

• Expanded in 1875

• Comedian Lenny Bruce ran away from home at the age of 16 and worked on the Dengler farm from 1941 to 1943

• Fred Dengler passed away in 1973

• His wife re-married in 1983

• His wife Caroline died in 2007

• Landmarked June 8, 2011

• His son sold it to its present owner in 2011

The Jones-Dengler Farm House

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• Now a therapists office

• It has a colonial design

• This past spring it got sold to the present owner who plans to renovate the home

• It is located at 1051 Wantagh avenue, Wantagh between Duckpond Drive and Lee Ann Terrace

The Jones-Dengler Farm House

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~Wantagh Auto body~ Wantagh’s Original Fire Department

• The cupola on the top is original and used to be the siren for the fire

department which rang until 1984.• In march of 1963 the Motchweiller family

bought the building turned it into Wantagh Auto body

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~Wantagh Auto Body~ Wantagh’s Original Fire Department

• The other fire department took all of the equipment from the structure.

• The Motchweiller family only knocked down a few walls for more space, no other changes were made

to the building.

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WANTAGH AUTO BODY ~ WANTAGH’S OLD FIRE DEPARTMENT

• After the fire department left part of it was used as a diner, in 1965 it closed and is now used as a backyard for the shop.

• The upstairs still has the original floors and panels.

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Wantagh Museum & Old Train Station

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Jones Beach State Park

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Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones was born in 1665 in Ireland. He landed on the South Shore of Long Island in 1692. He was given a permit to start a whaling company in 1705 and died eight years later in 1713.

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Robert Moses Moses was a big part of

Jones Beach’s architecture.

He helped design most of Jones Beach.

The park opened in 1929.

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Marine Theatre

The Marine Theater opened in 1930.

Guy Lombardo was a big part of the designing the Marine Theatre.

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Guy Lombardo

Guy Lombardo was a huge part of designing the Marine Theatre and many other Jones Beach structures.

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Nikon Theater

Nikon Theater opened in 1954 with 8,200 seats. It expanded into a second deck in 1991 and opened a bay stage in 2009.

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Jones Beach Bathhouses

The West Bathhouse was built in 1930 by Robert Moses and Herbert Magoon. The East was built in 1930 soon after the West Bathhouse opened.

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Jones Beach Lighthouse

The Jones Beach Lighthouse was built in 1930

The “pencil” as it is known locally is an icon of Jones Beach and can be seen from miles away

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Jones Beach Beaches

Jones Beach opened in 1929. Fields 1, 2, and 6 were opened from 1948 to 1952.

Zach’s Bay ( Field 5) was added in 1935.

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Fun Facts

• NYS Traffic Department had to expand the Meadowbrook Parkway and others, due to the high volume of people who wanted to visit Jones Beach

• Jones Beach hosts the New York Air Show on Memorial Day weekend

• Blue Angels Fly Over Jones Beach

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Harold Avenue Cemetery

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The Cemetery’s RootsThe cemetery’s roots can be traced back to the early 1800s, when Thomas Jackson, a white Revolutionary War Veteran, sold 20 acres of land to freed African American Jeffrey Jackson in 1808.

Thomas Jackson, who is buried in the cemetery, owned land located where the Wantagh Public Library stands today and lived by the Jerusalem River. He was a brave man who served in the 4th line and the Second New York Regiment and also took part in the capture of Fort St. George and fought in the Battle of Long Island in 1776

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The History of Harold Avenue Cemetery

The Harold Avenue Cemetery is located west of Old Mill Road between Lawrence Place and Harold Avenue.

The Harold Avenue burial plot was used by the descendants of the Jackson family slaves prior to 1862, the date of the first recorded burial in the Old Burial Ground on Oakfield Avenue.

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Sources Sited

Sources;Cemeteries of Old WantaghEditorial CommitteeWantagh American Revolution Bicentennial CommitteeWantagh, NYMay, 1976Larry Engel, Wantagh Boy Scouts, District 12Sherwin Kaplan, Voice of WantaghKarl Pfeiffer, Wantagh American LegionDonna Rigali, Wantagh Public Library

Source;Wantagh Seaford Patch.comMelissa O’ConnorDecember 16, 2010

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Sources

• JonesBeachRescue.org• Wikipedia.com• Google.com• Youtube.com

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Sources

Interviews with manager of Wantagh Auto Body

http://www.flickr.com/photos/longislandautobodyrepair/7095382787/in/set-72157629493349818

for pictures

By: Shayna DeRosa