South Huntington, Long Island
The neighborhood was mostly settled by an English people who came in South Huntington by way of Massachusetts and Connecticut. As a result, they felt more of a kinship with New England than with their Dutch neighbors to the west in New Amsterdam. Town Meeting was the earliest form of government in the area. Called as the need arose, free men of the town gathered to distribute town-held land, resolve disputes, regulate the pasturing of cattle on town land, engage schoolmasters, appoint someone to keep the ordinary (public house) and maintain the roads, as well as resolve any other matters that concerned the community as a whole. South Huntington was known for slavery especially black slaves as domestic servants, but rarely did a person own more than a few slaves. During that time, there economy was heavily dependent on slave labor. In 1799, the New York State Legislature passed an act allowing for the gradual abolition of slavery. After World War II, South Huntington’s economy started to boom by replacing farms and vacant land into housing, schools, highways, recreational facilities and new and expanding business and industry. Walt Whitman, an American poet and essayist, was born in South Huntington in 1819. His family moved to Brooklyn when he was a child but he returned to Long Island as a young man. The racial-makeup of South Huntington comprises of 93.47% White, 0.85% African American, 0.06% Native American, 3.55% Asian, 0.82% from other races, and 1.25% from two or more races. Most of its resident’s ancestries were Italian, Irish, German, English, Polish, Russian, Greek, Arab, Puerto Rican, and Swedish. South Huntington is served by the South Huntington Union Free School District which has a total of four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district is committed to provide the positive learning environment on their students to become responsible, respectful, and contributing citizens. Housing units in South Huntington are mostly occupied by their owners, not by renters. Real estate taxes per home are quite higher in the town than most places in New York. |
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South Huntington is a hamlet and census-designated place located in 