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Farming History on Long Island
By Linda Tancs
Long Island, New York, is a hub for industries like life sciences, advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense, construction and information technology. So it might be difficult to imagine it back to its family farming roots. Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead was created to preserve and interpret the history of farming on the North Fork of Long Island. It began with preservation of the 19th-century Hallock family farm, where descendants lived and farmed for over 200 years. The museum owes the name Hallockville to the number of descendants of Capt. Zachariah Hallock along Sound Avenue in Riverhead in the 1800s, causing locals to refer to the area as “Hallockville.” Guided tours of the homestead are available from May to October.
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