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Abraham Woodhull Home

 
 
Abraham Woodhull Home Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, March 17, 2012
1. Abraham Woodhull Home Marker
Inscription.
Site of home
Abraham Woodhull

Chief of Long Island Spies
under Gen. Washington.
Built by Richard Woodhull
1690 – Burned 1931

 
Erected 1938 by New York State Education Department.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary. A significant historical year for this entry is 1690.
 
Location. 40° 57.061′ N, 73° 6.806′ W. Marker is in Setauket, New York, in Suffolk County. Marker is on Dyke Road north of Heritage Lane, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: East Setauket NY 11733, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Site of Strongs Neck Bridge (approx. ¼ mile away); Caroline Church of Brookhaven, 1729 (approx. 0.3 miles away); Mary (Longbothom) Muirson (approx. 0.3 miles away); Bicentennial of US Constitution (approx. 0.3 miles away); St. George’s Manor Cemetery (approx. 0.3 miles away); Zachariah Hawkins Home (approx. 0.4 miles away); Setauket World War I Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); Setauket World War II Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Setauket.
 
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Marker in East Setauket image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, March 17, 2012
2. Marker in East Setauket
Abraham Woodhull Home Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, March 17, 2012
3. Abraham Woodhull Home Marker
Abraham Woodhull was a member of George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring located on Long Island during the Revolutionary War. He lived in a house at this location with fellow spy Austin Roe. Here, Woodhull and Roe would prepare coded messages which were later ferried across Long Island Sound to Major Benjamin Tallmadge in Connecticut. Tallmadge would then deliver the messages to Gen. Washington.
Abraham Woodhull Home Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, March 17, 2012
4. Abraham Woodhull Home Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 17, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 4,871 times since then and 229 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 17, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.

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