Patchogue, N.Y. Inset Sections - Chase's Wall Map, 1857

In 1857, Main Street (S. Country Road, Montauk Highway), in Patchogue, was known as Fulton Street (likely honoring Robert Fulton). What is today S. Ocean Avenue was then known as Water Street (earlier, around 1812, as Patchogue Lane or simply, The Lane; later as Ocean Avenue, eventually as S. Ocean Ave., after Pine St. was renamed N. Ocean Ave.). Numbered businesses congest Fulton and Northern Water St., keyed to a separate chart on the left. A classified list of businesses appears on the left-center of the map, itself. Note, that most of the E. side of the Patchogue River appears to then have been uninhabited, and few roads lead there, and these are largely unnamed. Many present-day streets do not yet exist, a few have not yet achieved their full length or be shortened, and their route will, in time slightly change. The oldest thoroughfares, Fulton and Water Streets are the most heavily populated. At the S. end of Water St., a wharf extends into Great S. Bay. A. Roe's Railways appear to extend along a narrower wharf into the Bay slightly to the W. The latter may have been used to haul ships on land for repair, as at Port Jefferson, and/or to aid in loading and unloading of their cargoes. The exact extent of the railways is not clear. The unnamed street on the west side of Patchogue River appears to be what is today River Avenue. Oddly, only two shipyards are shown (both on the Bay the 2nd W. of River Ave.). The Easternmost road, from just E. of Medford Avenue, leading S. to the Bay, appears to be Bay Ave. What may be Brook Ave (unnamed) crosses a small stream, leading to Water St. Note cotton factories, a paper mill, an English and Classical Academy, near the S. base of Great Patchogue Lake. East (Swan) Creek and West (Tuthill) Creek and corresponding lakes, lie E. and W. of the area covered by the map, suggest that even in the antebellum North, Patchogue was a local center of industry, with cotton ties to the South.

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