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The Raynham Hall Brief: How Oyster Bay’s 18th-Century Spy House Became the Evidentiary Centerpiece of Culper Ring Historical Scholarship
ByPawli Paola Meyer September 24, 2025April 12, 2026

Before the Culper Ring was a cultural phenomenon, it was a documented intelligence operation. Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay holds the evidentiary record — and that record rewards careful reading.

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The Clay Beneath Cold Spring Harbor: What Colonial-Era Pottery Sherds Found Along the Shoreline Reveal About Huntington’s Forgotten Industrial Past
ByPawli Paola Meyer July 5, 2025April 11, 2026

Before the boutiques, Cold Spring Harbor was a working shore. The ceramic fragments turning up along the eroding shoreline are telling a story no deed record can.

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The Lattingtown Landing: Tracing the Buried Footprint of an 18th-Century Oyster Bay Township Landing Site That Gold Coast Development Paved Over but Did Not Erase
ByPawli Paola Meyer June 10, 2025April 11, 2026

The estates look permanent. But underneath the carriage drives of Lattingtown, an earlier economy is preserved in soil — one that predates the mansions by two centuries.

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