THE   SOUTH   SIDE   RAIL   ROAD   COMPANY   OF   LONG   ISLAND
THE   SOUTHERN   RAILROAD   COMPANY   OF   LONG   ISLAND
BELLPORT     STATION
THE   BROOKLYN   AND   MONTAUK   RAILROAD   COMPANY
THE   LONG   ISLAND   RAIL   ROAD   COMPANY




SEYFRIED   WRITES   THAT   FROM   THE   START   THERE   WAS   TALK   OF   TERM-
INATING   THE   SOUTH   SIDE   RAIL   ROAD   AT   SAG   HARBOR   OR   RIVERHEAD.



OUR   FRIEND   AND   FELLOW   EBAYER   BRIAN   MERLIS     B.K.SALES     SENDS   THIS   1872   AGREEMENT   OF  
WILLINGNESS   TO   TRANSFER   A   66   FEET   WIDE   RIGHT - OF  -  WAY   TO   THE   SOUTH   SIDE   RAIL   ROAD.



BEERS   1873   ATLAS   DOES   NOT   SHOW   THE   PROPOSED   RAILROAD   IN   THE   VILLAGE
BUT   DOES   SHOW   A   NUMBER   OF   SIGNERS   OF   THE   AGREEMENT   INCLUDING
H.  F.   OSBORN   AND   MATTHEW   WOODRUFF   "STATION   ON   BELLPORT   ROAD."


THIS 1870 S.S.R.R. TIME TABLE SHOWS THE PROPOSED EXTENSION CURVING INTO
BELLPORT AND THEN CURVING NORTH AND EAST TO FIRE PLACE AND SOUTH HAVEN




IN JULY 1875 THERE WERE TWO ACCIDENTS - A FATAL COLLISION AT LAWRENCE ON
THE FOURTH AND A DERAILMENT WEST OF FAR ROCKAWAY ON THE THIRTEENTH.   THE
                                                                                VFS part One

THE   1873   BEERS   ATLAS   SHOWS   THE   PROPOSED   EXTENSION





THE   BROOKLYN   &   MONTAUK   RAILROAD   COMPANY   WAS   INCORPORATED   NOVEMBER   20,   1879   AS   A   REORGANIZATION   OF   THE   SOUTHERN   RAILROAD   COMPANY   WHICH   HAD   BEEN   LEASED   TO   THE   LONG   ISLAND   RAIL   ROAD   IN   JANUARY   1876.     IN   1881   THIS   COMPANY   EXTENDED   THE   TRACK   A   DISTANCE   OF   19.18   MILES   TO   A   CONNECTION   WITH   THE   SAG   HARBOR   BRANCH   AT   EASTPORT.


THIS   ROUTE   RAN   NEARLY   STRAIGHT   TO   BELLPORT,   SOME   DISTANCE   FROM   THE   VILLAGE.




THIS   MAP   IDENTIFIES   THE   PEOPLE   WHO   HAD   OWNED   THE   VARIOUS   PARCELS


THANKS   AGAIN   TO   DAVE   KELLER   FOR   ANOTHER   WONDERFUL   OSBORNE   PHOTO,   c1925



BELLPORT   STATION   1962




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