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  EARLY SETTLEMENT
Sagamore Hill, therefore, is the same as Sachemauog Hill, or the Hill of Kings.
Montowampate was sachem of the Saugus Indians, and lived on Sagamore Hill (in Lynn) near the eastern end of the beach, and had jurisdiction of Lynn and Marblehead.
Sagamore John was said to be naturally of a gentle and good disposition, who loved the English and revealed to the inhabitants of his neighborhood a great design of the Narragansett Indians against them.
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 Sagamore Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sagamore Hill was the home of President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
It is located on Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, 45 miles east of New York City.
Today it is preserved by the National Park Service as the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
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Sagamore Hill on Oyster Bay, Long Island, became known as the Summer White House during Teddy Roosevelt's years as president.
It is hard to escape in Sagamore Hill Roosevelt's love of the wild and rugged.
The Roosevelts' six children also left their marks in Sagamore Hill, but their legacies are relegated to the second floor with its nursery, bedrooms and red bathroom.
www.pittsburghlive.com /pages/entertainment/travel/us/roos19.html   (1456 words)

  
 Sagamore Hill - Home of Theodore Roosevelt - Roosevelt Almanac
Named after the Indian chief Sagamore Mohannis, Sagamore Hill stands atop Cove Neck on 95 acres of forest, tidal salt marsh, and bay beach; land which was purchased in 1880 for $10,000 down and a 20-year, $20,000 mortgage.
Sagamore Hill was designed by the New York architects of Lamb & Rich, and built in 1884-1885 by John A. Wood and Son of Lawrence, Long Island, for $16,975.
The house itself is a sprawling 23 room, two-floored, Victorian styled building, with a massive 30 x 40 grand room known as the North Room where TR kept his trophies, books, paintings, sculptures, library, and dozens of priceless artifacts given to him by foreign dignitaries.
www.theodore-roosevelt.com /trsahi.html   (377 words)

  
 Sagamore
John Kovalchick, who owned the Sagamore Hotel for 21 years, states that on the building’s opening date in l903, a group of rowdy workmen "had a big fight and tore the whole front off!" The hotel throughout its existence remained the scene of frequent fistfights as well as an occasional shooting.
Sagamore residents fought back against crime in their community, and from the earliest days, company-hired lawmen patrolled the town.
Union men at Sagamore, among the last in District 2 to surrender their charter, retaliated by dynamiting company houses and singing spirited union songs as they paraded in front of the hotel.
www.lib.iup.edu /spec_coll/articles/sagamore.html   (4297 words)

  
 Theodore Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill was the homestead of the twenty-sixth President of the United States.
Built in 1884-1885, the house is a museum that conjures immediately the energy, strengths and charisma of the man. As a child TR played in the very area where the house was built in Oyster Bay, NY.
The word "Sagamore" was the name of a local tribe of Native Americans, who once lived in the vicinity.
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 Extended Home Page: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
The home is preserved as it was during his residency from 1887 to 1919 by the National Park Service and designated as the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
Temporary Employment Opportunities at Sagamore Hill and the National Park Service.
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 Your sagamore info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
SAGAMORE - Two separate projects requiring Sagamore Bridge lane closures this fall were scheduled to coincide, avoiding the need to restrict bridge traffic on two separate occasions.
Further sagamore material can be found by browsing through the site to help with finding resources on sagamore hill and sagamore hill.
SAGAMORE HILLS _ A sharp poke to the nose sent a Fleetwood Drive man to the police on April 7.
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 National Park Service - The Presidents (Sagamore Hill National Historic Site)
Sagamore Hill, overlooking Oyster Bay Harbor and Long Island Sound, was the home of Theodore Roosevelt for nearly four decades and is the site most closely associated with his life and career.
About that time, he named it Sagamore Hill in honor of Mohannis, who had been the sagamore, or chief, of an Indian tribe that had once lived in the area.
From then until 1909, the year he retired from office, Sagamore Hill served as a "summer White House." During that time, it became the focus of national interest, and newspapers daily reported the activities of the six Roosevelt children, their 10 cousins, and "Teddy" himself.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/site44.htm   (1262 words)

  
 Newsletter - Member Edition
One of the principal objectives adopted by the Roosevelt Memorial Association when the organization was founded in 1919 after TR's death was the acquisition and opening to the public of Sagamore Hill as a memorial to the former president.
Hall's father, Franklyn Hall, had worked at Sagamore Hill and then at the White House; and Leonard Wood Hall was a godson of TR's daughter Ethel.
In 1963 the Theodore Roosevelt Association gave Sagamore Hill and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City to the National Park Service together with an endowment for the sites of $ 500,000 (which was half of the TRA's endowment at the time).
www.imakenews.com /etra/index000033439.cfm   (774 words)

  
 NTHK Shinsa Team 1997 Visit
John Prough, Tadashi Setsu of Sotheby’s, and I drove out from NYC loaded down with all of the luggage, supplies and good cheer that would be needed for the next four days’ shinsa activities.
Yoshikawa sensei had several handwritten documents, some of which are illustrated along with other photos from the visit on pages 35 and 36 in the 11/97 issue of Token To Rekishi, the NTHK journal (there is also a write up of the shinsa on pages 37 and 38).
After the lecture, we were able to talk informally for a while, and enjoy the beautiful grounds at Sagamore Hill.
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 Long Island History: The White House on the Hill
From 1902 to 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill was the summer White House, the focal point of world affairs, where the 26th president combined the nation's business with his family's recreation.
A visitor to Sagamore Hill today might be startled to walk into a house that is so masculine in its decor -- with the one possible exception of Edith's drawing room, where softer colors, French tapestries, elegant rugs and Sevres porcelain dominate.
So Roosevelt stayed at Sagamore Hill, and he and Edith hung in the entrance hall the small flag, blue stars on a white background, that showed he had sons in the service.
www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs622a,0,6830016.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation   (4779 words)

  
 Sagamore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A sagamore is the head of a Native American tribe.
The word is generally synonymous with sachem, although sometimes a sachem is considered a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.
This page was last modified 20:00, 29 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sagamore   (63 words)

  
 RoadTrip America® - James Foote
James has been recreating the persona of Theodore Roosevelt for fifteen years, and today he'd granted us the honor of guiding us through Sagamore Hill, the Victorian home where TR and his family lived for over thirty years.
James gave us a splendid tour of Sagamore Hill, pausing whenever other groups passed to delight them with Roosevelt wisdom and lore.
Sagamore Hill is a three-dimensional history book of the Roosevelt era.
www.roadtripamerica.com /people/foote.htm   (634 words)

  
 SAGAMORE HILL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill is a rambling, solidly built, 23-room Victorian structure of frame and brick.
Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, its contents and 34 hectares (83 acres) of land were purchased by the Theodore Roosevelt Association, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1919 to recall "to the American people Mr.
Roosevelt's personality and achievements, and the ideals of individual and national life that he preached and practiced." In 1963 the association presented Sagamore Hill, along with Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City and a $500,000 endowment, to the American people as a gift.
www.lieye.com /museums/saghill/sag6.html   (446 words)

  
 Fodor's Travel Guides | Forums Messages
Sagamore Hill and the Old Westbury Gardens are the 2 places (near each other) I'd suggest seeing on the western/mid part of the island if you want to stop.
This is a dilemma b/c Sagamore Hill and Old Westbury are west of Port Jeff by about an hour.
It was formerly an estate and is several acres of land with indoor and outdoors pools, racquet ball courts, and tennis courts.
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 Sagamore Hill National Historical Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay on Long Island, was Theodore Roosevelt's home from 1886 until his death on Jan. 6, 1919.
Today, Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill home is furnished as it was during his busy lifetime.
Now the park's museum, Old Orchard has exhibits and films on President Theodore Roosevelt's political career, his family life at Sagamore Hill and the lives of his six children.
www.trthegreatnewyorker.com /sites/longisle/saghill.htm   (295 words)

  
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Dr. Hendrickson, a scientist at the research laboratories of Bartlett Tree Experts, has served as the chief consultant for trees on the grounds of Sagamore Hill and particularly for the European copper beech planted by Theodore Roosevelt adjacent to the entrance of the home in 1895.
“Preservation of the historic landscape of Sagamore Hill, particularly of trees and plantings created by Theodore Roosevelt, are among the most important responsibilities we have as stewards of Sagamore Hill.
Sagamore Hill has created the Award for Historic Excellence in the memory of the late John A. Gable, Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association for thirty years, and noted Theodore Roosevelt authority, whose knowledge of the life of Theodore Roosevelt was well known.
www.bartlett.com /w100.cfm?id=74   (355 words)

  
 Bellerose Ave. School
He got his name from Sagamore Mohannis who was the chief of the Indians who first owned this land.
Sagamore Hill is now a National Historic Site, and you can tour it.
In 1950, the Theodore Roosevelt Association bought Sagamore Hill so that the American people would remember this great man. In 1963, the Association gave it to the American people as a gift.
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 Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay New York - Global Hotelindex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay New York - Global Hotelindex
Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, from 1885 until his death in 1919.
From 1902 to 1908 his "Summer White House" was the focus of international attention.
www.globalhotelindex.net /city/New-York-USA/homes/sagamore-hill-home-newyork.asp   (215 words)

  
 NANAPASHEMET - or the New Moon
Their largest shell heap was between the hills to the west of Throgmorton Cove off Salem Harbor in Marblehead near the " Pine " grove, on the line of the railroad to Salem: by actual count this heap contained 30 cords of shells placed in layers of stones and ashes.
Sagamore George may have contracted small pox in 1633 and survived, but with the disfigurement of the loss of his nose which sometimes occurred as a result of this disease.
He was a sagamore, or "sachem of the blood, or chief of the royal line," of Musketaquid; and appears to have possessed rights in the soil equal if not superior to Squaw Sachem; and like her to have concented to its sale.
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 Adirondack Museum Press Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site is administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Amy Verone served as Park Curator at Sagamore Hill since 1991.
She holds a Master's Degree in American Studies from George Washington University and has worked at the National Archives, the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of American History, and Canterbury Shaker Village.
www.adkmuseum.org /press/2001_rooseveltsagamore.shtml   (364 words)

  
 Sagamore Hill National Historical Site, a New York State Park near Alden Manor, Amityville, Baldwin, Bayonne, Bayside
Sagamore Hill National Historical Site, a New York State Park near Alden Manor, Amityville, Baldwin, Bayonne, Bayside
He reformed the federal civil service and New York City police department, lost a race for New York City mayor, finished second in a 1912 third party bid for president, arrested outlaws as a North Dakota deputy sheriff, served as Governor of New York and Vice-President of the United States.
Today, Sagamore Hill is furnished as it was during his busy lifetime.
www.stateparks.com /sagamore_hill.html   (281 words)

  
 Newsday.com: Uncle Teddy's Comfortable Home
While Teddy pursued the limelight, his wife, Edith, was content managing Sagamore Hill's farming enterprises -- and the brood that soon included Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, Quentin and Alice (Roosevelt's daughter with his first wife, Alice, who died shortly after giving birth).
He also pitched in with chores, sometimes disastrously (he once felled a tree that doubled as a telephone pole, knocking out service to the house in his zeal to reclaim the harbor view).
It was on Sagamore Hill's broad "piazza” that he was notified of his nomination for governor of New York in 1898, vice president in 1900 and president in 1904 (he eventually removed a section of porch railing so he could give speeches closer to the crowd).
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 Newsday.com | Names of Long Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's Cove Neck residence became the "Summer White House" during his presidency.
He built Sagamore Hill after purchasing the land between Oyster Bay Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor in 1880.
According to tradition, the cove had been inhabited by an old Indian named Mohannis, sometimes called "Chief" or "Sagamore." The area was therefore known as Sagamore Hill.
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Notes on the March 17, 2002, field trip to Sagamore Hill, Sandwich, across the canal north of Scussett Beach.
Sagamore Hill was used as a gunnery station during the Second World War to protect shipping from German U-Boats.
The earliest USGS Sagamore MA Quadrangle map (7.5 Minute Series) covering the Sagamore Hill area is 1940.
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 Theodore Roosevelt Film Library V4 at USHistoricalArchive.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are two views of TR addressing soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill: the first segment shows TR's back as he speaks; the second is a long shot of TR, shot from the rear of the group of soldiers.
SUMMARY Views of TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son Quentin, delivering a speech from a covered platform to a large crowd gathered in an open area of what appears to be a factory and surrounding area; close-up of TR, prepared text in hand, speaking to the camera.
SUMMARY On May 27, 1916, groups of men, the 7th Regiment Band, and several children march on the road from the Oyster Bay railroad station to Sagamore Hill to demonstrate their support of TR for the 1916 Presidential nomination.
www.ushistoricalarchive.com /cds/rooseveltv4.htm   (2417 words)

  
 Swank's Sagamore legacy lives in ministers called
Through the 43 years Fred Swank served as pastor of Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth, he was instrumental in mentoring perhaps 100 young men and women who became vocational ministers.
Swank's ministry at Sagamore Hill might help answer the question, according to those who were influenced by the legendary pastor.
Hawkins and his best friend, Jack Graham, often would drive to the Sagamore parsonage late at night, walk in the back door to Swank's bedroom, wake him and take him for a ride in the car to talk about ministry.
www.baptiststandard.com /2002/10_7/print/swank.html   (946 words)

  
 About Facts Net
This article is not so much a history of Teddy but a photographic view of his home and grounds at Sagamore Hill and the cemetery where he and a lot of his family are buried.
Sagamore Hill is in Oyster Bay on Long Island in the state of New York.
Teddy came from a very rich family and by 1837 they were one of the twenty richest families in the United States.
aboutfacts.net /People43.htm   (832 words)

  
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On May 27, 1916, shortly before the Republican Party and Progressive Party conventions, the newly formed Roosevelt Non-Partisan League sponsors a demonstration of support for TR at Sagamore Hill.
Many prominent men are included in the over 2,000 people who traveled from New York City to Oyster Bay to see TR and hear him speak on "Americanism." Panning shots of crowd gathered around porch; TR shakes hands.
Final views of TR speaking at Sagamore Hill.
hdl.loc.gov /loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4151   (254 words)

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