People
This was the first man to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo:
Charles Lindbergh
On August 13th, 1926, a LIRR accident left 6 dead at a pickle factory in
Calverton
This prestigious race was hosted by William K. Vanderbilt along LI Roadways:
Vanderbilt Cup
This group had a lasting presence on LI during the 1920s and made public displays to recruit:
Ku Klux Klan
The Great Hurricane of ____ left dozens of Long Islanders dead
1938
This man is known as NYS’s most famous civil planner, responsible for roadways, bridges and parks:
Robert Moses
This was the current site of Brookhaven National Lab, served as training grounds for WWI soldiers:
Camp Upton
The rise of this political philosophy spread around the world and the United States in the 1930s
Nazism (fascism)
This was the bridge that Robert Moses had built to better unite NYC:
Tri Borough Bridge
This was the date that World War II officially began
Sept 1, 1939
This man spent the summer of 1939 vacationing on the North Fork:
Albert Einstein
This NYS Parkway connects directly to Jones Beach
Wantagh Parkway
This inventor is credited with the invention of wireless radio transmission.
Guglielmo Marconi
This was the name of Grumman’s most popular WWII Fighter Plane
Hell Cat
This is the number of people who attended Jones Beach in its first full year open!
1.5 million
This man went bankrupt in an attempt to create a resort-style city at Montauk:
Carl Fisher
This was the site from which Charles Lindbergh began his solo Trans-Atlantic flight:
Roosevelt Field
This summer camp was promoted by the German American Bund and took place in Yaphank.
Camp Siegfried
Popular source of illegal alcohol for NYC during prohibition
Rum runners
Population of New York State in 1950
14,830,192
This man had a laboratory in Shoreham and conducted electrical tests
Nikola Tesla
This was the town where Camp Siegfried was located in the 1930s
Yaphank
This rally at Madison Square Garden was hosted by ____ and attended by 20,000 people!
Fritz Kuhn
This man flew the “wrong way” from Brooklyn to Ireland across the ocean.
Douglas Corrigan
The Jones Beach Water Tower is capable of holding how many gallons of fresh water?
300,000