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Oakdale, NY - History


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


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

Oakdale has a population of 6947. 50.6% of Oakdale’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.4 are female. 49.3% of Oakdale is married and 83% own their own home. The Average Home price is $442,244, and the average rent is $1,585. Household median income in Oakdale is $105,662, and the individual median income is $50,269. Oakdale’s Ethnic is the following: White(90%), Black(7.3%), Hispanic(3.8%), Multiple(2.3%), Other(0.3%), Asian(0.2%).


Oakdale was founded around two Native American trade routes, where Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway currently lie. Oakdale was part of the royal land grant given to William Nicoll, who founded Islip Town in 1697. Local historian Charles P. Dickerson wrote in 1975 that Oakdale's name appeared to come from a Nicoll descendant in the mid-19th century.


The community includes: St. John's Episcopal Church, built in 1765, is the third oldest church on Long Island. The community originated with a tavern owned by Eliphalet (Liff) Snedecor in what is now Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Soon after its founding in 1820, Snedecor's Tavern began drawing New York bluebloods and business barons who wined and dined in remote joy when they weren't fishing and hunting nearby.


"Liff's food is as good as his creek", a magazine writer declared in 1839 referring to the food and Connetquot River. The writer added: "and the two are only second to his mint juleps and champagne punch; whoever gainsays either fact deserves hanging without benefit of clergy." In 1866, as the railroad reached the area, Liff's wealthy patrons formed the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and soon the race was on to see who could create the most superb spread in the thick forests adjoining Great South Bay.


The most prominent were built by William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt; Frederick G. Bourne, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and Christopher Robert II, an eccentric heir to a sugar fortune. Meanwhile, William Bayard Cutting, a lawyer, financier and railroad man, built his estate next door in Great River, New York which had once been west Oakdale. In 1912, Jacob Ockers of Oakdale organized the Bluepoint Oyster Co., which became the largest oyster producer and shipper in the country.


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