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The Wyandanch Union Free School District operates the community's public schools, including LaFrancis Hardiman/Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Milton L. Olive Middle School, and Wyandanch Memorial High School. [58] Wyandanch was part of the Deer Park school district until 1923. Deer Park built the first permanent school building in ...
Wyandanch started a 9th grade class in 1957–1958 and added a class a year until the high school opened. The school district obtained 10 acres (40,000 m 2) between South 32nd Street and Little East Neck Road and between Garden City Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue by condemnation for the high school and its athletic fields. The groundbreaking for ...
Wyandanch Memorial High School; Martin Luther King Elementary School; References This page was last edited on 20 February 2025, at 03:15 (UTC). Text ...
Wyandanch (c. 1571 – 1659 [1]) was a sachem of the Montaukett Indians in the mid-17th century on eastern Long Island. [2] Initially he was a minor chief among the Montaukett, [3] but due to his skillful manipulation of various alliances and his accommodating stance towards the European colonists who gave him substantial military and economic support, he eventually became an influential ...
In 1659, Montaukett Sachem Wyandanch died. [11] The following year, Wyandanch's widow sold all of Montauk from Napeague to the tip of the island for one hundred pounds to be paid in ten equal installments of " Indian corn or good wampum at six to a penny".
The island has been owned by the Gardiner family and their descendants since 1639 when Lion Gardiner purchased it from the Montaukett chief Wyandanch. [1] At 5.19 square miles (13.4 km 2), it is one of the largest privately owned islands in the United States, though slightly smaller than Naushon Island in Massachusetts, owned by the Forbes ...
Poggatacut (c. 1568 – 1651) also known as Youghco or Poggatticut, was sachem of the Manhasset Indian people of Shelter Island, New York and elder brother to Montaukett Sachem Wyandanch. Sachem Poggatacut and his wife Aswaw granted possession to Lion Gardiner for Gardiners Island in 1639.
The former Sachem High School South, the 9th and 10th-grade facility, was converted into Samoset Middle School. Sequoya was built as a fourth middle school for the purpose of reconfiguration. Sachem High School North, formerly home to all 11th and 12th-grade students in the district became a 9-12 facility for students in the western and ...