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Thomas Dodge Homestead

2025 Museum Tours: 

  • Fourth Sunday of every month

    • May 25
      June 22
      July 27
      August 24
      September 28
      October 26

  • 2 pm sharp!!!

Thomas Dodge Homestead (circa 1721)

 

58 Harbor Road, Port Washington, NY 11050

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New York Times Article, 1996

Yes, this is the Dodge Homestead, 100 years ago.  There is a guy standing there with a bicycle, which was the most popular mode of transportation at the time, along with the horse, the buggy, and a few of those new fangled auto-mobiles.  

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Originally, the Dodge lands extended from the Mill Pond all the way to Hempstead Harbor, including most of Harbor Acres. (see Fred Blumlein's amazing map below)

 

Take a look at the next image, below, photographed last summer.

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Not that much different, is it?  

 

In the back is the original out-house (a three seater!!!), the last one in Port Washington. And of course we have our bees, tended by Ross, our bee-keeper.  And we still overlook the Mill Pond, where 7 generations of the Dodge family lived, worked, prayed, and raised their families while the little village of Port Washington grew up all around them.

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Come visit us for our Spring Fling! It's free! It's our annual open house, with live music, house tours, talks with our bee-keeper, light refreshments, a few antiques for sale, and perhaps some model boat racing just across the street.  Sit on our lawn chairs.  Buy some local honey or pressed-flower cards. It's an old time relaxing kinda day! Join us, and slow down for a few minutes!

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This photograph doesn't do justice to the amazing Japanese Maple on the left side of the frame.  A wonderful article by our Trustee, Ross Lumpkin, does however.

Read it here!

A new roof for the historic Thomas Dodge House was made possible by a generous grant from the Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation

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