Strongs Neck, New York

Strongs Neck is a peninsula just south of Long Island Sound and hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island.

Strongs Neck is part of the Town of Brookhaven. Census data is included in Setauket-East Setauket, New York.

It was originally known as Little Neck. In the 1600s it was the home of William "Tangier" Smith who through purchases and land grants owned most of Brookhaven with property stretching from Shirley, New York on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest to Riverhead, New York in the northeast as well as all of Fire Island.

Smith's great-granddaughter Anna (who was part of the Setauket Spy Ring during the American Revolution} married Selah Strong family and the neck was renamed Strong's Neck. Anna was to coordinate communication among the spies via the color of clothes hung on her clothes line on Strongs Neck.

The Strong family still owns the site of the original Smith mansion and Smith and many of his progeny are buried there.

Long Island itself is nicknamed "Strong Island" and the name is used extensively including the Strong Island Sound which is a American Basketball Association team that plays in Suffolk County, New York.

Geography

Brookhaven is located at coor dms|40|57|30|N|73|06|36|W|city (40.95, -73.1)GR|1.

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