Monthly Meetings:
Dear Community,
Please notice our meeting night has changed "NEW" night Thursdays.
Our first meeting is September 29, Thursday , meet the candidate with centereach civic- October 27 at the Centereach Fire Dept. – November meeting we are planning our Family Dinner night -location/date TBA-, No meeting in December tree and menorah lighting- December 8, - —Jan 19, Feb 23, March 29, April 26, May 24 and June 21-Celebration of Volunteers. …All our meetings are in the Library in Selden.
The first meeting we have the Police Department coming in to talk about Neighborhood Watch.
Please come to be part of the discussion.
Message From the President,
Executive Board
Deboarh Felber
President
Sandy DiPiazza
Vice President
Pat Biosotti
Treasurer
Colleen Jones
Recording Secretary
Joe Turdik
Corresponding Secretary
Directors
Rose Hunt
Philamenia Rynolds
Mission:
The name of this association shall be the Selden Civic Association, Inc., and its object shall be to promote civic and social welfare in Selden and surrounding areas and to accumulate such funds as are necessary for this purpose.
The Selden Civic Association was Established in 1932 and was Incorporated in 1952. We have maintained a long lasting community commitment to the residents of Selden. We hope to help create a place to live that we can all be proud to call home.
Selden Civic Assoc., PO Box 521, Selden, New York 11784
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
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NAME____________________________________________________________
ADDRESS_________________________________________________________
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If this application is accepted, I agree to be governed in all meetings of the Association by its Constitution
and By-Laws.
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REMARKS _________________________________________________________________
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MEMBERSHIP Donation $10.00 per family or per person...
Please include check with application Our e-mail address is seldencivic_optonline.net Our web-site address is www.seldencivic.org
If you would like to contact us please send us an e-mail we will reply to your need or concern or even an idea. Thank you for your support.
Quality of life survey
Send in to: Selden Civic Association-PO Box 521-Selden, NY 11784
Quality of Life/Economics Comments: (Pick one or all) What is important? WHY?
Property/School Taxes:
Quality of Public Schools:
Local High Paying Jobs:
Loss of Industry:
High Energy Costs:
Downtown Revitalization Areas:
Crime/Gang Activity:
Starter/Senior Homeownership:
Quality Legal Rentals:
High Density Housing Units:
Open Space Preservation:
Groundwater/Drinking Water:
Increase in Roadway Congestion:
LIRR Expansion/Upgrades/Bus Services:
Police, Fire Departments,Youth/Senior Center & Services:
Cafe Amici Restaurant-353 Independence Plaza, Selden-631-698-0818
Rita T Corp-Rita Tsoukaris- 1315 Middle Country Rd, Centereach-631-736-2000
Meetings:
Events/Topics for Regular Meeting Dates- Thursday, 7:00pm Middle Country Library in Selden
Dates/Events/Topics:
September 29-Suffolk County PD talking about Neighborhood Watch
October 27-Meet the Candidates Night with Centereach Civic-CFD
November Date/Location-TBA- Family Dinner Night
December 8th--Tree and Menorah Lighting
January 19- Reg Mtg.
February 23- Reg Mtg.
March 29- Reg Mtg.
April 26- Reg Mtg.
May 24- Reg Mtg.
June 21 /Celebrate Volunteers
Address
Selden Civic Association, Inc.
PO Box 521
Selden, NY 11784
seldencivic_optonline.net
/links
http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/
http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/home
http://www.house.gov/
www.senate.gov
www.abcoonline.org
www.centereachcivic.org
www.holtsvillecivic.org
www.mcpl.lib.ny.us
www.mccsd.net
www.parentsformeganslaw.org
http://www.mc5kraceforautism.com/index.php
FaceBook-Selden Civic Association
Early Settlement
The farmers who first moved to what is now Selden in the mid-1700s referred to the area as Westfield (or sometimes as Westfields). One of the better known early residents was Captain Daniel Roe (1740–1820), who fought in the French and Indian War and served as a captain in the Revolutionary War, and for whom Captain Daniel Roe Highway is named. Roe built a house in Selden along Middle Country Road before the Revolutionary War. Roe is buried in a small family cemetery south of Middle Country road behind the Old Westfield shopping center.
From The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe, 1806–08 (1904), caption reads: "School house near home of Capt. Daniel Roe. Near the tree, at the right, tradition says the Tory Captain Richard Miller fell from his horse in 1776."
Roe sided with the Patriots in the lead-up to the Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1776, Roe was assigned to lead a raid against the Tory and Hessian detachment near Selden led by his cousin Richard Miller. Miller was a wanted man, and Roe himself had pledged 10 pounds of the bounty offered for Miller's capture. When Miller rode right by Roe's house in uniform, he was confronted by Roe's men and ordered to dismount. Instead, Miller fired his pistol and turned to flee, whereupon he was shot by the militiamen. Miller was then carried into Roe's house, where he died.
Nineteenth Century Farm Town
A school district for the Westfield area was first created in 1815, carved out of the districts for New Village (now Centereach) and Coram. Originally named District 25, it was renumbered as District 12 in 1842, which it remained as until the formation of the Middle Country Central School District in 1957.
When a post office was opened in 1852, Westfield had already been taken as a name by a community upstate. Upstate attorney (and later judge)Henry Selden promised to do "something handsome" if the town named itself after him. The name was adopted, though it is usually said to be unknown whether he ever followed through on his promise, and probably did not. While some sources report that the attorney had no known connection to the community, one newspaper reported in 1958 that Selden and attorney Edward Boyle (the namesake for Boyle Road) acquired a large tract of land in the hamlet shortly before the post office opened, and started to develop it.
As of 1885, Selden was home to 88 residents and a Presbyterian church (built in 1857), and noted for producing melons and early garden vegetables from its farms. Around 1897, the popular cross-island Bicycle Path was completed and ran through Selden. A popular stop along the path, "Wheelmen's Rest", was in Selden and run by Albert Norton.
The Selden home of Daniel Roe, From The Diary of Captain Daniel Roe, 1806–08 (1904)
In 1916, the Suffolk County Tuberculosis Sanitorium opened on land then-considered to be part of Holtsville. The location, including some of its original buildings, became in 1961 the main (Ammerman) campus of Suffolk County Community College, which today has an enrollment of over 11,000 students.
From 1919 to 1959, Telescope Hill on the south side of Selden was the location of a fire lookout tower. During World War II, a Nazi "U-Boat" spotted from Telescope Hill was later captured.
In 1935, a new public school building was built near the same location as the prior school building, near the intersection of Bicycle Path and Middle Country Road. That building was renovated in the 1980s and became a branch of the Middle Country Public Library.
The main thoroughfare in town, Middle Country Road, was paved from Smithtown and through Selden to Coram around 1927-8. The rural nature of Selden soon began to change, when in 1931 (when it had around 131 residents ), real estate agents began marketing small lots to New York City residents as retreats from urban living, in a development called "Naturen's Gardens". This was located on the south side of Middle Country Road and Evergreen Drive. Suburban development increased in earnest in the early 1950s, and by the early 1970s Selden had become a primarily suburban community.
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