Local History
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Local History
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Celebrating 100 Years of Rye’s Zoning Rules In 1923, the Village of Rye adopted…
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Rye’s Longtime Merchants (A Sequel) By Paul Hicks In 2012, The Rye Record ran…
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A Bit of Local History Honoring Local Black Leaders By Paul Hicks More than a century ago,…
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A Little Local History Ogden Nash, Native Son By Paul Hicks Frederic Ogden Nash,…
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Whitby Castle, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, was built in the 1850s. …
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A Little Local History The Bush-Lyon Homestead By Paul Hicks Among…
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By Paul Hicks From its founding in 1660, the village of Rye gradually expanded…
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A Bit of Local History The Old Rye Fort
By Paul Hicks
From its founding in 1660, the village of Rye gradually expanded from its original settlement on Manursing Island onto the mainland. By 1675, there were homes dotted along both sides of Blind Brook. To the north, west, and south, however, the small community was surrounded by wilderness, where wolves still roamed.
As recounted by Charles Baird in his history of Rye: “The Indians dwelling along the shores of the Sound proved from the first to be pacific and friendly toward the settler, and our inhabitants probably felt little apprehension from them until the outbreak of war, in the year 1675. But in that year, King Philip, of Mount Hope, a chief of the Pokanokets, succeeded in uniting the tribes of Massachusetts and Rhode Island in a desperate effort to exterminate the English. The conflict lasted about two years, and it did not actually spread into the territory of Connecticut, yet every town in that colony shared in the anxieties and sorrows produced by the fearful struggle.”
