Blydenburgh Park Historic District

Bushy Neck, a small settlement within Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown, Long Island, survives as a ten-acre district of nine historic structures. A mill complex on the New Mill Pond includes the c.1800 New Mill, a grist mill that keeps its original framing, plan and remnants of machinery, and the c.1802 Miller's Cottage, a gambrel-roofed house with Federal details and an unusual two-story porch. Uphill sits a farm complex centered on Isaac Blydenburgh's 1821 farmhouse, a Gothic Revival cottage, and several outbuildings including a corn crib, barns and a privy. The Blydenburgh family, early Smithtown settlers, established the settlement around 1800 and ran the mills, including woolen cloth production during the Civil War, until 1924. The surrounding woods and farmland remain undeveloped, and no modern buildings stand inside the boundary. The district was recognized as a rare, intact example of Smithtown's early nineteenth century agricultural and milling life.