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History · New Suffolk

New Suffolk’s post office opened in 1890, and 43% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1903 on, and old-book passages.

1890first post office
1on the National Register
43%homes built before 1940
5old photos & papers
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From New Suffolk’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How New Suffolk began

When was New Suffolk founded?

1890

The New Suffolk post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 403136 years
Founding year: the first New Suffolk post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about New Suffolk’s past

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

On the map since 19033 editions of the USGS map, 1903 to 1956. Watch New Suffolk change.Old housesHalf of New Suffolk’s homes were built before 1948.
★ What stands out · On the map

New Suffolk on the map, 1903 to 1956

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Suffolk. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Suffolk on the 1903 USGS mapNew Suffolk on the 1947 USGS mapNew Suffolk on the 1956 USGS map1903Sag Harbor sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Suffolk.

The story

How New Suffolk came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Suffolk.

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The submarine USS Holland (SS-1), the first commissioned submarine in the U.S. Navy, along with five other Holland Torpedo Boat Company-designed submarines of the Plunger class, were based in New Suffolk's Holland Torpedo Boat Station between 1899 and 1905, prompting the hamlet to claim to be the "First Submarine Base" in the United States. The location of the "submarine base" was on 1st Street between Main and King Streets. The name of Mr. Holland's company was changed to Electric Boat during this time.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about New Suffolk in 1882

Passages that mention New Suffolk, cut from the printed page as they were published.

What the 168 acres in Cutchogue are worth the owners can judge much better than the writer. The neck upon which the village of New Suffolk is situated was originally called " Robins Island Neck," and was very early owned by Master John Booth (as he was called by way of pre-eminence), together with …
...History of Suffolk county, New York1882 · page 28Read the page →
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What the 168 acres in Cutchogue are worth the owners can judge much better than the writer. The neck upon which the village of New Suffolk is situated was originally called " Robins Island Neck," and was very early owned by Master John Booth (as he was called by way of pre-eminence), together with all the land on the main road at Cutchogue between the estates of Henry L.

Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.

Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

New Suffolk, 1873 to 1903

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873In the archiveOrient, Town of Southold. - East Marion, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - New Suffolk, Tow…
  3. 1899In the archiveFor wiki contest 1
  4. 20th century
  5. 1901In the archiveNew Suffolk, New York (1901)
  6. 1903On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

New Suffolk, decade by decade

3 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1870s–1900s5 items
Orient, Town of Southold. - East Marion, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - New Suffolk, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - V…1873Orient, Town of Southold. - East Marion, Town of Sout…For wiki contest 11899For wiki contest 1New Suffolk, New York (1901)1901New Suffolk, New York (1901)Suffolk County, V. 2, Double Page Plate No. 10 (Map bounded by Long Island Sound, New Suffolk, Great Peconig Bay)South …1902Suffolk County, V. 2, Double Page Plate No. 10 (Map b…MapSuffolk County, V. 2, Double Page Plate No. 27 (Map bounded by Mattituck, Orient1902Suffolk County, V. 2, Double Page Plate No. 27 (Map b…Map
1910s–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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Today1 recent
New Suffolk Sub Memorial2007New Suffolk Sub Memorial
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.

Orient, Town of Southold. - East Marion, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - New Suffolk, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - V…
Retake this viewOrient, Town of Southold. - East Marion, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - New Suffolk, Town of Southold, Suffolk Co. - V…, 1873

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

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On the National Register

1 historic place in New Suffolk

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
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 New Suffolk

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

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Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisFirst Lady of the United States from 1961 to 19… · b. 1929
Mary L. CleaveAmerican engineer and NASA astronaut · b. 1947
Paul AnnaconeAmerican tennis player and coach · b. 1963
Carl YastrzemskiAmerican baseball player · b. 1939
Prentice MulfordAmerican writer · b. 1834
Joshua BlochAmerican software engineer · b. 1961
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Finish New Suffolk’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

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 viewOrient, Town of Southold. - East Marion…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Cutchogue3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about New Suffolk’s history

What year was New Suffolk founded?

The New Suffolk post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.