HERMANNVILLE

ARRT'S ARRCHIVES

LAKE ROAD STATION
HERMANNVILLE STATION
LAKE STATION, LAKELAND STATION
LAKELAND FARMS and
WOOD LAWN, L. I.

NEW AUGUST 11, 2006 - REVISED AUGUST 29, 30.

1845 AND 1848 TIMETABLES SHOW LAKE ROAD STATION

1848 TIMETABLE FROM THE "LONG ISLAND FARMER"

THIS MAP DATED 1850 CALLS MANORVILLE "BROOKFIELD" AND RIVERHEAD "COURT HOUSE" AND SHOWS HERMANNVILLE , A STATION WE HAD NEVER HEARD OF, NEVER SEEN ON A TIMETABLE OR ON ANOTHER MAP.
ALSO SHOWN IS A ROAD CURVING FROM LAKE RONKONKOMA TOWARD OAKDALE LIKE THE PRESENT "POND ROAD". THIS WAS "LAKE ROAD" AND THE LAKE ROAD STATION WAS AT ITS CROSSING OF THE RAILROAD.
BILL SLADE'S RESEARCH SHOWS LAKE ROAD STATION 1250 FEET EAST OF
LAKELAND STATION (OCEAN AVENUE) AND 90 FEET EAST OF POND ROAD.

A "NEW" 1855 COLTON MAP SHOWS HERMANNVILLE, AND SHOWS
WAMPMISSIC , WHICH APPEARS ON THE 1852 - 1853 TIMETABLE.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY WEBSITE OFFERS A "MAP OF THE VILLAGE
OF HERMANNVILLE, TOWN OF ISLIP, SUFFOLK COUNTY, LONG ISLAND".

ALSO SHOWN ARE "THE VILLAGE OF LAKELAND" AND DRAWINGS OF
LAKELAND STATION AND LAKE POST OFFICE AND LAKE RONKONKOMA.

ARRT PAID THE N. Y. P. L.'S FEE OF $75.00 AND RECEIVED A HIGH
RESOLUTION SCAN OF THE HERMANNVILLE MAP AND
PERMISSION TO UPLOAD SAME FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS.

THIS MAP OF HERMANNVILLE SHOWS TWO EAST-WEST STREETS WHICH STILL EXIST - PECONIC STREET AND COMAC STREET AND A NORTH-SOUTH STREET - HERMANN AVENUE. THERE IS STILL A HERMAN AVENUE ALTHOUGH PECONIC AND COMAC STREETS DO NOT RUN THAT FAR EAST. THIS AREA IS NOW THE PART OF RONKONKOMA THAT LIES SOUTH OF THE RAILROAD.

THIS IS A CIRCA 1940 MAP.

LAKELAND WAS ESTABLISHED BY DR. E. F. PECK WHO PURCHASED THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF LAND CONSIDERED BARREN AND THEREFORE ALMOST WORTHLESS. HE BUILT LAKELAND STATION, GRADED AND OPENED OCEAN AVENUE AND CULTIVATED AND SEEDED THE "BARREN" SOIL. HIS AGRICULTURAL SUCCESS AND THE CONVENIENCE OF THE LONG ISLAND
RAIL ROAD WERE HIS SELLING POINTS IN OFFERING LAND TO THE PUBLIC.
THE NORTH-SOUTH STREETS IN LAKELAND TODAY ARE REMARKABLY
SIMILAR TO THOSE ON THE 1850 MAP.

IN 1851 DR. PECK SOLD HIS PROPERTY TO CHARLES WOOD WHO OFFERED IT
FOR SALE AS "LAKELAND FARMS". NOTICE THAT THIS MAP FROM 1851 OR SO
SHOWS LAKELAND AND HERMANNVILLE AS CONTIGUOUS VILLAGES WITH
PECONIC AND COMAC STREETS RUNNING THROUGH BOTH. "LAKELAND
FARMS" INCLUDED THE PRESENT DAY BOHEMIA AND MUCH OF OAKDALE.

CHARLES WOOD SOLD THIS PROPERTY TO WILLIAM DIERSSEN OF CHARLESTON,
S. C. AND IDENTIFIED IT AS "THE VILLAGE OF WOOD LAWN L. I."

WOOD LAWN IS SHOWN ON THE 1873 BEERS ATLAS IMMEDIATELY NORTH
OF SAYVILLE. THE SOUTH SIDE RAIL ROAD WAS NOT THERE IN 1855.

IN HIS 1873 BOOK "HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY", RICHARD M. BAYLES
STATES THAT LAKELAND THEN HAD TWENTY-FIVE HOUSES. THIS IS LAKELAND IN THE 1873 BEER'S ATLAS.

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