Suffolk County Historical Society

Long Island was once the scene of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Come learn all about the story which involves theft, a planned kidnapping and a series of underground bunkers called caves by the media of the time.

The Suffolk County Historical Society, which opened its museum in Riverhead in 1931, is celebrating its 130th anniversary of its founding this year.

county began as the East Riding of Yorkshire and, he said, “from there morphed into” Suffolk County in 1683, one of the 12 original counties in the Province of New York, and even after independence and the province becoming a state, Suffolk was “the only county never to be subdivided.”

The Suffolk County Historical Society will host its fifth annual Winter Wonderland Woodcarvers' Holiday Show and Sale Saturday, December 5 from 10 a.m. to 4:30...

The Suffolk County Historical Society announces the opening of "Watercolor Artists of the North Fork," a special fall/winter exhibition of the work of local watercolor...

Kathryn Curran, who has been at the helm of the Riverhead history museum since summer 2011, will become the executive director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation in Hampton Bays, which supports historical societies' efforts on Long Island.

The Little Red Mill (circa 1659) is credited by historians as being the first saw mill ever erected on Long Island. It was the first of many mills powered by the Peconic River.

For many, they are simply playthings, a ubiquitous element of childhood that is eventually stuffed into a dusty attic or thrown to the curb when their caretakers grow...

Experience this historical collection of African American dolls on loan from the private collection of Dr. Judith Kronin.

The stately brick building has stood on the triangle of land formed by the intersection of West Main Street with Court Street and Osborn...