Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from a bound collection of insets from the original Chase's Wall Map. Map is 7.25 inches wide and 6.375 inches high, and Business Directory is 4.5 inches wide and 1.75 inches high.
Date: 1857-00-00
Language: English
Coverage: Patchogue, N.Y.
Rights: Not In Copyright
Description: In 1857, Main Street (South Country Road, Montauk Highway), in Patchogue, was known as Fulton Street (likely honoring Robert Fulton). What is today South Ocean Avenue was then known as Water Street (earlier, around 1812, as Patchogue Lane or simply, The Lane; later as Ocean Avenue, eventually as South Ocean Avenue, after Pine Street was renamed North Ocean Avenue).
Numbered businesses congest Fulton and Northern Water Street, keyed to a separate chart on the left. A classified list of businesses appears on the left-center of the map itself. Note that most of the East side of the Patchogue River appears to then have been uninhabited, and few roads lead there, and these are largely unnamed.
Many present-day streets do not yet exist, a few have not yet achieved their full length or have been shortened, and their route will, in time slightly change. The oldest thoroughfares, Fulton and Water Streets are the most heavily populated. At the South end of Water Street, a wharf extends into Great South Bay.
A. Roe's Railways appear to extend along a narrower wharf into the Bay slightly to the West. The latter may have been used to haul ships on land for repair, as at Port Jefferson, and/or to aid in loading and unloading of their cargoes. The exact extent of the railways is not clear.
The unnamed street on the West side of Patchogue River appears to be what is today River Avenue. Oddly, only two shipyards are shown (both on the Bay the 2nd West of River Avenue). The Easternmost road, from just East of Medford Avenue, leading South to the Bay, appears to be Bay Avenue. What may be Brook Avenue (unnamed) crosses a small stream, leading to Water Street.
Note cotton factories, a paper mill, an English and Classical Academy, near the South base of Great Patchogue Lake. East (Swan) Creek and West (Tuthill) Creek and corresponding lakes, lie East and West of the area covered by the map, suggesting that even in the antebellum North, Patchogue was a local center of industry, with cotton ties to the South.
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