Site #8: Lloyd Harbor

Columbia Grove, The Whaling Museum, 90.01_cropped.jpg

Edward Lange, Columbia Grove, Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, 90.01

Let's hit the beach! Can you figure out where along the shoreline of Lloyd Harbor this resort used to stand? (Hint: Try taking a walk on the path beside the causeway)

New York City and Long Island’s flourishing population in the mid- to late nineteenth century increasingly sought leisure activity. Columbia Grove, a resort located on Lloyd Neck, offered guests an opportunity to relax on the beach, swim, or rent small watercraft to take out along the coastline. George Van Ausdall, a popular businessman of his time, owned and operated the resort. The steamboat, Gen’l Sedgwick, was one of a small fleet of barges and steamers owned by N.S. Briggs of Briggs Excursions. Together, these steamboats could ferry several thousand people to and from Columbia Grove each day.

In Lange's painting the steamboat is moored to Lloyd's Dock, which Henry Lloyd IV constructed in the summer of 1852. Henry IV was the last Lloyd family member to live in the family's 1767 manor house on Lloyd's Neck. Their house still stands! Take a drive along Lloyd Harbor Road to explore Preservation Long Island's Joseph Lloyd Manor property and Lloyd Harbor Historical Society's Henry Lloyd Manor House!