On June 7, 1938 Joseph F. Knapp
sold off most of his 180 acres to Home Guardian and the unification
of Mastic Beach began, These aerial photos taken three weeks later
show you basicaly what it was like before that time. Home Guardian
has already started to cut roads into
Section 9 on the north side of the Knapp mansion (red arrow)
This first photo shows lots of trees.
Mrs. Schulz, whose father took care of Knapp's cars and boats
told me "Mr. Knapp always took great care of his trees".
You can see the mansion house is surrounded with them. George
Sutter who bought the place in 1941 must of done a lot of cutting
or The hurricane of 1938 which was just 2 1/2 months away took
a bunch.
The Golf course is the large cleared
area and that dark circle on the bottom is a pond.
TODAY
The Photo Below Gives you a bigger
picture of what was and what was to be.The
Red Line is Neighborhood Road on the Left & Birch Road On
The RightWhere it stops and starts
were the west and eastern boundarys of Knapps property
The green line is Knapp Road which
started at Mastic Road and came right to the house.
You can see they have cut in part of Monroe,Jefferson
running N&S and running E&WHamilton,
Cornelius The Connecting Piece of Neighborhood, Hockey , Soccer,
Cedar connection , LaCrosse,. and DogwoodConnection, There is a small piece of McKinley also
showing just south of Cedar to about Chestnut Pl.
Down at this end you can see Knapp's
Dock very clear there appears to be a lot of sand on Dock Road
and the trail that will become the end of Jefferson appears to
have some sort of bulkheaded beach the same one we used to fish
off of at Beach 10
There are several buildings plainly
visible on the golf course and of course there are more in the
tree areas. It is really strange to see my future home was built
in a complete forest as was my grandfathers. Red X's
The Remaining 12 Acres That Dodi
Knapp kept for two more years are within
the red line
1: Mansion ?: Tennis Court + Helicopter Pad ?? Whatever it was it is VERY LARGE
(Tennis Place aka Phyliss Dr woud go across estate here)
Circles are around his outbuildings
and barns caretakers house etc
NEW 50 foot wide ROADS (Wider
is better & The Town Made Home Guardian Do It ) That are going
in are
M: McKinley Dr / D: Dogwood connecter
L: is Locust Dr cut into Sect 3
in 1926
J: is future 5 lot parcel our house
was built on in 1939Corner of Elm
& McKinley
