The remainder of the town was sparsely populated and consisted mainly of farms (Town of Babylon, 2015a).Īs one can also see from the map, the South Side Railroad line runs through Amityville, Breslau, and Babylon. When the Town of Babylon was founded in 1872, most of the town population was located within the communities of Amityville, Babylon, and Breslau (now Lindenhurst).

As one might see in the map, only some of the districts were named when the map was published, including District 1 Babylon, District 3 North Babylon, District 4 Breslau, District 6 Amityville, and District 7 Deer Park. It depicts general landscapes of Babylon in 1888. On this map, the Town of Babylon is divided into eight districts and also Oak Island and Cap Tree Island. It was separated by an official partition in 1872 (16 years prior to this map being published). According to (2014), the Town of Babylon was once part of the Town of Huntington, called Huntington South. This particular map is a Map of the Town of Babylon. This map is from the Atlas of the Towns of Babylon, Islip, and South Part of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, N.Y. There are Fire Risk Assessment Maps, Insurance Maps, Atlases of Suffolk County, Real Estate Maps of Suffolk County and Nassau County, Section Plans of Nassau County, and so on. They are mainly historical maps and atlases of the Long Island, NY region and a few of the five boroughs of New York City. The Maps and Atlas Collection at the Bay Shore Brightwaters Public Library consists of 28 maps and atlases. Map of the Town of Babylon from the Maps and Atlas Collection at the Bay Shore Brightwaters Public Library

Babylon map