The Girls Basketball Team of 1910

Women’s History Month:

The First Northport High School Girls Basketball Team

The Northport Girls Basketball Team in uniform, 1910

(standing left to right) Juliet Kenney, Effie Clerke Mott, Lorina Bishop; (in tree) Phoebe Kingsley, Estella Quinlan, Rhea Seymour; (kneeling on ground) Irene Bennet; (on fence, right) Harriet Miles

March Madness

On March 27th in 1939, the University of Oregon defeated Ohio State, 46-33, to win the first ever NCAA men’s basketball tournament and March Madness was born.
Forty three years later, the NCAA held its first women’s basketball tournament in 1982. It started with 32 teams, expanding over the years to 64 teams for the 1994 season. The championship is played the day after the men’s, concluding the college basketball season.

The first girls basketball team for Northport High School formed in 1910- the nine original members are pictured above.

Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic: Funeral Directors

Spotlight:

Nolan Funeral Home

A Family Business

James P. Nolan Sr. met Anne, the woman who would become his wife, when they were both registered nurses at the Kings Park Hospital. James eventually left the hospital to attend the American Academy Institute of Funeral Service. He obtained his funeral directing license and completed a residency at Clayton Funeral Home in Kings Park in 1947.
A year later in 1948, James and Anne went into business for themselves, opening Nolan Funeral Home on Laurel Avenue. Through hard work and a commitment to service, James and Anne were successful and expanded the original building in 1958.
Soon after, their eldest son Jim Jr. began to work at the funeral home, followed by his brother Peter in 1963. (Peter Nolan served as Mayor of Northport from 1978-1998.)
In 1968, ten years after the first renovation, the building was once again expanded- and stands today at the corner of Laurel Avenue and Main Street.

Look closely at the sign below the store window on the lower right

Village Undertakers

The first “undertakers” in the Village of Northport were found at the establishment of S & G A Robbins furniture store on Woodbine Avenue around 1894.
George A. Robbins and his nephew Samuel served the community until George’s mysterious and untimely death in 1899. Samuel took over the business and his son, Harry T. Robbins joined him. He renamed the firm S. Robbins and Son.

Taylor-Howe Funeral Home at 81 Scudder Avenue, circa 1970
The house was remodeled in the 1930s

New Partnerships

By 1935, Harry Taylor and his partner Robert Davis managed the funeral home and decided to move the business into the old Benjamin T. Robbins (no relation) house at 81 Scudder Avenue. This became the first building dedicated solely for use as a funeral home in the town of Huntington. (It was also the first home in the Village to have indoor plumbing!) In 1946, Harry Taylor bought out his partner and changed the name to Taylor Funeral Home.
Harold Howe, a funeral director from Freeport moved to Northport in 1963 and began working with Taylor eventually buying the business from him in 1968 and changing the name to Taylor & Howe Funeral Home.

From left to right: Peter Nolan, Harold Howe, and Jim Nolan Jr. in 1988

At the Corner of Main and Laurel

In 1981, Howe merged his business with Nolan Funeral Home on Laurel and the name was changed to Nolan & Taylor-Howe.
In the summer of 2018 Mark Nolan, the son of Jim Jr. bought the business from his Uncle Peter and changed the name back to Nolan Funeral Home- which still stands today at 5 Laurel Avenue.

-COMING EVENTS-

A Society Favorite Returns!

Parading Down Main Street Walking Tour
-Sunday, April 18th at 1:30pm-

Join us for a lively, informative, and socially-distanced walking tour of Northport’s historic Main Street business district.
Masks are required and group size is limited. Tickets: $7 per person, available by registering on our website. The tour leaves from the Society steps at 215 Main Street- please arrive by 1:20 pm.

The NHS Book Club Pick:
George Washington’s Secret Six

Book Club Virtual Meeting

-Thursday, April 29th @ 7:00 pm-

This New York Times Best Seller will thrill you with ties to local history! Find copies set aside for members at the Northport Library’s reference desk.

The Northport Historical Society Book Club is a virtual members-only event.
Sign up on our website to receive an invite to join us via Zoom.

Send in Your Entries!

The “Spirit of Northport and East Northport” Photo Contest

We hope that the last weeks we spent highlighting the decades from the 1940s to the 1990s has reminded you of your own family stories, and jogged your memory about photos you or your parents or grandparents might have saved that were taken during those years. We want to encourage you to contribute photographs you find that capture the spirit of Northport/East Northport from that time- these images will be added to our collection to help preserve the stories and visual history of our community.
Please go to our website for more information on how to send us your photos and enter the contest. We can't wait to see what you find!

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