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Nissequogue
Nissequogue () is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island, in New York (state), New York, United States. The village population was 1,564 at the 2020 census. The Incorporated Village of Nissequogue is located entirely within the Smithtown, New York, Town of Smithtown. History Nissequogue Municipal incorporation, incorporated as a village in 1925. In the early 1970s, during the administration of Mayor James Donahue, Nissequogue Village Hall opened inside the former Moriches Road Schoolhouse. Nissequogue Village Hall was dedicated to Donahue in 2017. In 1973, Donahue and his administration established the Village of Nissequogue Fire Department and purchased the land for the village's firehouse. The village created the fire department after the Saint James Fire Department, which had served the village for decades, proposed increasing their rates for fire prote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nissequogue River
The Nissequogue River is an long river flowing from Smithtown, New York into the Long Island Sound. Its average discharge of is the most of any of the freshwater rivers on Long Island. The river, like all other freshwater rivers on the island, is totally derived from groundwater (not from lakes). Its name is derived from one of the Algonquian-speaking Nissequaq tribe in the area. The river rises south of NY-454 just east of the Hauppauge County Offices and flows into Blydenburgh Park Pond where other tributaries that come from East Hauppauge and Commack meet and are dammed at Blydenburgh Pond. The river continues in a northeasterly direction, picking up additional tributaries from the north in Caleb Smith Park in Smithtown (where special regulation trout fishing is available). It is dammed once more before becoming an estuary at NY-25 where it then flows to Kings Park, New York, entering Long Island Sound at Nissequogue River State Park. Since much of the river is an estuar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
