Islip
Terrace
There were only a few farmhouses in the area north of East Islip
as the 19th Century ended. In 1914, as World War I began, Andrew
Wolpert Sr., a Bavarian native who had been a real estate agent
in New York City, and his three sons began building houses in the
woods between East Islip and Central Islip State Hospital. The
Wolperts wanted to attract people of German origin, according to
historians. The place was known as Germantown, but the war brought
pressures to change the name of the community. Many people who
moved there worked in the state hospital.
The name was changed to Islip Terrace in December, 1922, when
the post office was established in the former Wagner Hotel on Carleton Avenue, where the handful of businesses in this residential
community are located. Local sources say the name came from
the fact that the community was north of, or above, East Islip, and
because a terrace connotes a strip of land planted with trees and shrubs.
About the time the Wolperts were building homes, the
Pietram'sCircus
began giving shows in an old hunting lodge that attracted patrons
for miles around. According to a local history, ``Hearsay has it that
people brought their own oil lamps to help illuminate the evening shows, featuring monkeys, dogs, horses and acrobats".
Islip Terrace also has its own Fire
Department located on Manhattan Blvd.
(F.D. History
coming soon!!)
Click
here for Islip Terrace Fire Dept Website
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Jules P. Krzenski ITFD Tournament pics
EDITORS NOTE: Can anyone identify this pocket knife? It is in the shape of a bat and
says "Germantown" along it's side.
More Coming Soon!!
