DOCTOR'S POINT !

 

 

 

Long before it was Bayview Hospital, or Calabro's Compound or Lawson's Leap for that matter, the estate originally built and abandoned by Richard Floyd when he got the hell out of Dodge...... er Mastic ,was known as The Dr. Robert estate. Map makers through the years like Beers and Belcher Hyde ( don't you find it odd that Belcher followed Beers?) got careless with a misplaced apostrophe and the land along the west bank of Pattersquash Creek, got changed to The Roberts Estate. Most deeds refer to it that way too.

According to Long Island's Genealogy Site about Swift Stream (Forge River) Farms, Dr. Daniel Robert heard about the bargain land the Tangier Smith's were selling out in Mastic in 1786 and bought three thousand acres of it. He in turn must of sold a lot of it or gave it to the many Robert relatives. Through the 19th century and early part of the twentieth all the land between Pattersquash Creek and The Manor Of St. George bordered by The Neighborhood Trail on the north and The Bay on the south usually had some Robert name on it.

Now what we have here is a real estate ad from May of 1925. Just 13 months before The Smadbeck's would file the first Map Of Mastic Beach and change the name of the area forever. Notice the marketeers are calling it "MASTIC ON THE SEA" perhaps they were encouraged by the failed development just next door called Woodlands By The Bay.

 

 

 

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It shows the homestead from the north side, I believe it was probably Hollywood screenwriter John Howard Lawson who bought it at this time, but will have to research the deed next time I get to Riverhead. If he was the purchaser in 1925, then he held it till the 1940's when it became a true Doctors Point ( though never referred to by that name) again with the purchase by Dr. Frank Calabro. Under Doc Calabro's ownership several of the estate buildings got shuffled around and wound up doing different duty than they did back in Dr. Robert's time. The Carriage House became the Red Barn Saloon, The Outhouse became the Messinetti Tool Shed.

 

 

 

 

 

TO GET A GOOD LOOK AT THE MAP WITH ALL IT'S TINY PRINT CLICK HERE

TO SEE IF ANYONES HOME CLICK HERE

 

TO SEE WHY THIS GUY CAN'T WAIT TO RUN OVER TO SCHULTE'S ( He'd have to wait 7 years )

TO TELL ALL ABOUT HIS HUNTING TRIP CLICK HERE

 

 

TO GO UP THE CREEK OR IS IT DOWN? WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR PADDLE CLICK HERE

 

 

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