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Jamesport,
Miller Place,
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Shoreham,
Sound Beach,
St. James,
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Wading River
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Population: 12,078 Located in Suffolk County
The rocky terrain of this hilly hamlet was acknowledged at the start. The first mention of the place in Brookhaven Town records was Rocky Hollow in November, 1714. An entry in 1755 called it ``Rocky poynt hollow.' Noah Hallock, from Southold, is said to have been the first white settler, in 1721. He built a house that year near what is now called Hallock Landing. It is still there with the family cemetery. A large boulder, one of Long Island's biggest, once stood in full splendor behind the Hallock house, but is now surrounded by houses.
The early main industry was shipment of cordwood across Long Island Sound to Connecticut. The first, one-room schoolhouse was built in 1862. The post office was established in 1872, when the population was about 300. The Long Island Rail Road began serving Rocky Point in the spring of 1895, but that Wading River line was discontinued Sept. 1, 1938, for lack of business. That and the Great Depression crimped the land boom of the 1920s, when the New York Daily Mirror sponsored lot sales in Rocky Point. The newspaper built a fancy clubhouse, which was given to the new North Shore Beach Property Owners Association in 1929.
On Nov. 5, 1921, President Warren G. Harding, from his White House desk, broadcast an international message to inaugurate the world's first commercial wireless service, via the huge Radio Corp. of America station at Rocky Point. It had a field of towers 412 feet high and covered 6,200 acres. With changes in technology, most of the RCA land was given to the state in 1972 and is now a pine barrens wildlife management area. Wireless inventor Gugliemo Marconi sent the first wireless message to a ship at sea from Babylon Village in 1901. The historic shack he broadcast from in Babylon now stands in front of the Rocky Point School complex on Rocky Point Road.
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