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We would like to provide the residents of  Smithtown  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Smithtown Home page. The Smithtown Home page provides as much information as possible on Smithtown. Knowing Smithtown’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Smithtown’s Home page, you will also find Smithtown’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Smithtown has a population of 116428. 49.3% of Smithtown’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.7 are female. 58.3% of Smithtown is married and 88.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $502,518, and the average rent is $1,837. Household median income in Smithtown is $129,338, and the individual median income is $51,835. Smithtown’s Ethnic is the following: White(91%), Hispanic(7.5%), Asian(4.4%), Multiple(2.4%), Black(1.2%), Other(1%), Native(0.1%).


Smithtown, originally known as "Smithfield", was first settled circa 1665. Local legend has it that, after rescuing a Native American chief's abducted daughter, Richard Smith was told that the chief would grant title to all of the land Smith could encircle in one day "on a bull". Smith chose to ride the bull on the longest day of the year (summer solstice), to enable him to ride longer "in one day".


The land he acquired in this way is said to approximate the current town's location. There is a large, anatomically correct, statue of Smith's bull, known as Whisper, at the fork of Jericho Turnpike (New York State Route 25) and St. Johnland Road (New York State Route 25A). The border between Smithtown and the town of Huntington is partially defined by Bread and Cheese Hollow Road (Suffolk County Road 4), so named after Bread and Cheese hollow, which according to legend is where Smith stopped on his ride to have a lunch of bread and cheese.


The road is reputed to follow part of his original ride. The border between Smithtown and Huntington was also the site of Fort Salonga, a British fort that was the site of a battle of the American Revolution during 1781.The Smithtown hamlet of Nesconset was the home of Spaceplex, an indoor amusement park and arcade that was falsely accused of being the abduction site in the Katie Beers kidnapping case in 1992.


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