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Being a local history museum, our main focus is on the little stories that happened right here. We tell these stories through artifacts,...

We had another community member who was inspired by Sam Parrish's 1899 poetry contest, "What is Charm," which prompted her to write a...

In 1899 Samuel L. Parrish, founder of the Parrish Art Museum and the last private owner of the Rogers Mansion, formed a competition for...

We here at the Southampton History Museum would like to thank each and every one of you who has made an effort to support us over this...

I have worked with Brenda on a number of different projects over the last few years. Mostly pertaining to highlighting the story of...

Part of our work is to preserve physical artifacts from Southampton's history. We have plenty of old documents and maps and some...

This year has been tough. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of anger and a lot of grieving. And while 2021 looks promising to pull us...

Earlier this year some of my coworkers got the chance to go over to 7 Powell Street and check out an amazing piece of Southampton...

The 1961 Imperial LeBaron Southampton - a luxury sedan designed by Virgil Max Exner Sr. – is a highly regarded vehicle not only in its...

With Long Island being as heavily populated as it is, it makes sense that it is full of different urban legends and ghost stories. I feel...

It seems the more you tell ghost stories, the more you get told. They have an infectious way of coming out of people. The second I bring...

Continuing with our spooky themed blog entries for the month of October below we have an episode of the Long Island Paranormal...

While some enjoy watching horror movies year round, October is certainly the time of year the general public will indulge in these...

With the right amount of deterioration, spooky lighting and imagination, any old building can look and feel spooky. But is there really...

The hobby of collecting: - seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, maintaining. For the first time...

This will be our final week posting submissions. The Southampton History Museum would like to thank everyone who's participated in this...

If you'd like to play a part in history as it unfolds before us, please send your submissions to lmizzi@southamptonhistory.org

We got an email submission for our Corona Journals project that was a bit longer than the normal submission. Kenneth Gatten III has very...

If you'd like to play a part in history as it unfolds before us, please send your submissions to lmizzi@southamptonhistory.org

If you'd like to play a part in history as it unfolds before us, please send your submissions to lmizzi@southamptonhistory.org