History of Long Island, New York

History of Long Island with clips from Microsoft flight simulator showing off different parts of Long Island.

Broken up into multiple parts:
Early Native American History of Long Island
Early Colonial History
British Colonial History
Early American History
18th Century Wars
Gilded Age
Transportation Revolution of the early 20th century
Suburbanization
Post War Economy
21st Century History

Attribution for maps used in this video:

Tribal Territories of Southern New England

Henry Hudson Exploration Route

New Netherlands

Connecticut Colony

LIRR Railroad
No machine-readable author provided. NE2 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Attributions for images used in video
Coe Hall Historic House

Hempstead House

Oheka Castle

Sagamore Hill

Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium

Montauk Lighthouse
Timmy1189, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Other images and maps used were in the public domain.

[ErikMello]

Solid video! Covers a good amount of the essentials for our island. Cheers

[NewYorkNevada]

Don't forget the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War.

[olgathehandmaid]

Good video, thank you. A quick note about the stock footage used... 2:40 shows an Anglican or Catholic priest, completely opposite visual from the Puritan aesthetic and theology which banned both vestments and religious imagery.

[tractororganics]

such a great video i really appreciate this being from the island

[robsav]

Nice video but the clips you have of Levittown is not Levittown. The houses in Levittown are Cape cod style house with no basements. Also Levittown does not have palm trees. :)

[MakeupMobster]

Property taxes are absolutely ridiculous here. Great video tho.

[longislandpaularata]

Col Talmadge went from Mt. Sinai to what is now east moriches and surrounded some British troops and disarmed them without firing a shot.

[arthurtripp]

You forgot the large amount of small airfields across the Island. Or the first long roadway of Vanderbilt Highway or the Fresh Water need for Shipping Industry.

[Notypls]

Excelent video and your right about the younge people leaving I mean a room here could be 1500-2000 but I want this place to be better and not just wtv it is now

[johnnyintrieri]

Pretty informative. You forgot Camp Upton on William Floyd Parkway as a training center for our Armed Forces. The Levittown segment where l lived twice, you didn't show 1 Levittown House. Not enough on the South Shore.

[trailridescj]

Computer generated maps do not match the narration.

[musicissomuchfunpiano]

I left long Island for New Mexico because I could not get a job that paied enough to afford the rent lol

[kevenclinton]

The effects can still be seen today. That is a good thing because we have seen the results of intergration.

[wmr]

I am british, however my maternal 12th GGF WAS sanchem wayandanch a montauk native American, one of his daughters married my 11th GGF Captain Francis Bell who was born in USA 1611, his parents were Quakers from Suffolk England, must be why i am interested in their culture and love their music and singing ❤

[jeffhands]

Excellent video, and your comment at the end about property taxes showed that you really did your homework!

[graciemiller]

Great video. Left in 75 but miss it. Thanks

[alanohms]

First off brooklyn and queens didnt become part of nyc untill 1898 so in all reality thats only the last 120 or so years and geographically they have ALWAYS been part of Long Island. So when doing Long Island history you include all of Long Island

[brianreip]

Who's pocket are all our property tax going in

[andrewlayton]

@9:09 - definitely NOT Mitchell Field.