Town of Islip Grange

This 12-acre site was set aside by Islip Town in 1974 as a repository for 19th century structures threatened with demolition. With support from community groups, Islip Town created a rural, pre-Civil War village from structures moved onto the site, and the Islip Grange was formally dedicated in 1976 to preserve the culture and traditions of Long Island’s past. The land had once been part of a family-owned farm run by Jacobus Daane, a Dutch immigrant who also worked as an oysterman; a barn, pig pen, chicken coop, and corn crib once stood here. The family also operated a vegetable stand on Montauk Hwy with their harvest, but after Jacobus died of pneumonia, the family lost the farm and had to sell the land to dairy farmer Archie Brown, who employed one of the Daane children, Adrian. Another dairyman, John Budenos, purchased the farm from Brown in 1920.

Sayville, New York · United States