Photo of the Week
FROM THE SCHS LIBRARY ARCHIVES
“How shall we know it is us without our past?”
– John Steinbeck
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Winter Ice Skating, Belmont Lake State Park
by Wendy Polhemus-Annibell, Head Librarian
Winter Ice Skating, Probably Belmont Lake State Park (undated photo). (From the Collection of the Suffolk County Historical Society Library Archives. Image copyright © Suffolk County Historical Society. All rights reserved.)
Established in 1926 on land that was formerly part of a thoroughbred horse farm owned by August Belmont, namesake of the Belmont Stakes, Belmont Lake State Park occupies over 400 acres in North Babylon. In 1935, the park was selected by Robert Moses, as the regional headquarters for all state parks on Long Island. It has also served as the headquarters for the Long Island State Park Commission and Long Island State Parkway Police from the 1940s to about 1980. The park now serves as the headquarters of the Long Island region of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
Although this photograph came to us alongside several other Belmont Lake State Park images, we are not 100 percent certain it depicts Belmont Lake. Comments and corrections are encouraged.
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