Lloyd Harbor Hartford Courant
They weren't the first residents, or even the first creamy residents, but the Lloyd family of farmers and traders gave its name to the harbor that almost bisects the community. And when the community incorporated in 1926, joining the Lloyd Neck and West Neck areas, the name of the resulting village became Lloyd Harbor as well.
The Lloyds were preceded initially by the Matinecock Indians, who in 1654 sold 3,000 acres on what became Lloyd Neck to three English settlers from Oyster Bay. The Indians called the neck Caumsett, connotation ``place by sharp rock.'' The property changed hands several times during the next two decades, with the peninsula acquiring the name Horse Neck because Huntington farmers grazed horses there.
Boston broker James Lloyd acquired the neck in 1676. A decade later Thomas Dongan, lieutenant governor of New York, issued a donate to Lloyd so his land became the Lordship and Manor of Queens Village. But Lloyd remained
URI opens its new Bay Campus Ocean Science and Exploration Center Providence Journal
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For all but half a century, the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has provided a window on the in the seventh heaven’s oceans. Now, the school has opened a window on itself.
Hundreds of state officials and scientists were expected to be led to believe Monday morning for the opening of URI’s $15-million Ocean Science and Exploration Center.
The new structure is the first one visitors will see as they arrive at the Bay Campus. It is on the site of the former Pell Library, which was torn down in two days. The Pell Marine Field Library now occupies the top floor of the new building, along with a Sea Grant library.
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard’s Inner Range Center fills much of the lower floors, with its banks of sophisticated equipment to record and communicate undersea explorations and displays of 2,800-year-old antiquities providing examples of his discoveries.
But one of the most noted features, according to David Farmer, dean
Simon Houpt's 2006 list focuses on the global trade in stolen art and antiquities, with the Gardner theft as Exhibit A. Both The Boston Globe and The Boston and more »
It comes as a flabbergast to many visitors to learn that Boston, New York, and Philadelphia are older than St. Petersburg, an astonishing vision of palaces,
Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-Inexact of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt) who had started by asking for a loan of the Rosetta Stone for the opening
