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History · Asharoken

32% of Asharoken’s homes were built before 1940

3 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1915 on.

3on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Where Asharoken’s name came from

How did Asharoken get its name?

The Village of Asharoken is named after Chief Asharoken, head of the Matinecock Native American tribe which inhabited the area prior to English settlements.

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What stands out about Asharoken’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Asharoken’s homes were built before 1963.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Asharoken’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewEast Northport; Greenlawn; Asharoken Be…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Asharoken came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Asharoken.

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The location of Asharoken was originally inhabited by Native Americans. In 1656, European colonists began to settle the area.

Historically, Asharoken was part of the hamlet of Eatons Neck, and was known as Asharoken Beach.

Asharoken incorporated as a village in 1925, so to have a greater ability to control local beaches and roadways through home rule, and to limit the local sand and gravel mining activities and their impacts on the community and its environment – operations that were widespread at the time along the shoreline in the vicinity of Asharoken, Eatons Neck, and Northport.

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By decade

Asharoken, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s1 item
East Northport; Greenlawn; Asharoken Beach1915East Northport; Greenlawn; Asharoken Beach
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Asharoken Welcome Sign, Asharoken, NY October 9, 20222022Asharoken Welcome Sign, Asharoken, NY October 9, 2022Asharoken Village Hall, Asharoken, NY October 9, 20222022Asharoken Village Hall, Asharoken, NY October 9, 2022Asharoken Road, Asharoken, NY October 9, 20222022Asharoken Road, Asharoken, NY October 9, 2022NJ Felix House;2019NJ Felix House;Asharoken-ny-map2007Asharoken-ny-mapMap
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

East Northport; Greenlawn; Asharoken Beach
Retake this viewEast Northport; Greenlawn; Asharoken Beach, 1915

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Asharoken’s page.

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On the National Register

3 historic places in Asharoken

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Asharoken

Nobody well known was born in Asharoken itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Glenn CloseAmerican actress · b. 1947
Thomas PynchonAmerican novelist · b. 1937
Christopher LloydAmerican actor · b. 1938
Charli D'AmelioAmerican social media personality · b. 2004
Melissa Joan HartAmerican actress · b. 1976
Harry HarrisonAmerican science fiction author · b. 1924
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Eatons Neck1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFort Salonga2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCenterport6 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorthport4 historic placesA

Questions about Asharoken’s history

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.