Bayport


2nd depot opened: 8/10/1903 Bayport Station  1903 view SE

Entire construction of cement, including awnings. Erected by LIRR workers, not contracted. Architect Bradford Lee Gilbert  also designed the 1898 Grand Central Depot, the 1902 Southampton Station building and the 1902 renovation of the Oyster Bay Station building. Research: Dave Morrison
 


South Side Rail Road - Bayport Station and Express House
View E 1902 Archive: Dave Keller

BAYPORT: SOUTH SIDE RAIL ROAD DEPOT OPENED: 3/1869, ON E. SIDE OF BAYPORT AVE.  RAZED: 1903.
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 08/10/1903 FURTHER WEST ON WEST SIDE OF SNEDECOR AVE. AGENCY STILL OPEN AS OF 1/01/1955 AND CLOSED SOMETIME AFTER.  RAZED:  5/1964.  REPLACED WITH METAL SHELTER SHED.  DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP PER G.O. #207, EFF: 9/6/80.  Research: Dave Keller

Bayport - South Side Rail Road Station


Emery Map Bayport MP50-51 1901

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Bayport Station and Express House view NE 1902 
Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook

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Bayport Station and Express House view NW 1902  Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook

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Bayport Station and Express House view SW 1902 close-up
Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook

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Bayport Station and Express House view SW 1902 
Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook

Bayport - LIRR Station
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Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook 		Bayport-Station-postcard_viewN_1906.jpg (35019 bytes)
Bayport Station postcard view N 1906 "Published for Elroy's Variety Store" located in Sayville. 		Bayport-Station_viewE_c.1920.jpg (75082 bytes)
Bayport Station view E c.1925
Photo: Block operator James V. Osborne

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Emery Map Bayport MP50-51


Emery Map Bayport MP51-52   5/1958

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Bayport - Oakwood Ave. view S, "Split derail" high level switch stand, (perhaps to prevent roll out of Gulf Oil tank cars) view S 1932 Archive: Art Huneke

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Bayport - Oakwood Ave. view S, LIRR valuation photo view S 1/15/1932 Archive: Art Huneke


Bayport Station post card - View E c.1947		 Bayport-Station_viewE_1947.jpg (57338 bytes)
Bayport Station view E 1947
Photo: Frederick Weber Archive: Dave Morrison 		Station-Bayport-Eview_c.1947.jpg (72141 bytes)
Bayport Station east parking lot, view E 1947 Photo: Frederick Weber Archive: Dave Morrison
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Close-up Gulf Oil Co. view W 1947
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Bayport Station view W  3/17/1949 
Photo: Frederick Weber Archive: Dave Morrison 		Emery-Bayport_viewNW_4-1952.jpg (91611 bytes)
Bayport Station - view NW 4/1952  
Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook
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RDC' #3121, 3101 passing Bayport Mail Crane
View E c.1955+		 Emery-Bayport_viewSE_1960.jpg (80550 bytes)
LIRR #2002 FM-CPA20-5 westbound at Bayport 
view SE 1960  Archive: Emery - SUNY Stony Brook
Bayport Station - view W 12/02/1962
Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips


Bayport Station - view NW 12/02/1962
Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips

 


Abandoned Bayport Station - View SW 1963
Steel Rails to the Sunrise page 217


Bayport Ave., Bayport view N prior to the removal of the crossing signals on 10/07/1974.   6/06/1972 Photo/Archive: Richard Eikov 

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Siding in 1904 Bayport Barrel Factory

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Bayport -  Blue Point Station closing 9/05/1980 memo dated 8/27/1980 Archive: William Gilligan
Along those same railroad tracks, between Snedecor and Oakwood Avenues, Clarence E. Hibbard and John Sawyer Jr. established the Bayport Barrel Company in 1904. The company made a specialty of barrels for the oyster trade, particularly for the world-famous Blue Point oyster business. The building covered almost half an acre on the north side of the tracks, and by 1914 under Hibbard, with Frank Corey as foreman, fifteen men were employed turning out 100,000 barrels a season. By 1938 this facility was gone and the site was occupied by the Gulf Oil Company.

Disaster struck in 1918 when the Bayport factory burned to the ground. But the business survived. A new plant was built in Sayville beside the railroad station by the Farmers Manufacturing Company of Norfolk, Virginia. It became known locally as the Virginia Barrel Company,

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 Bayport barrel Factory staff staff close-up c.1904
In 1904, Snedecor and Squires bought a plot of ground on the north side of the Long Island Railroad tracks and east of Bayport Avenue and had a large warehouse built to house Snedecor and Squires Grain and Feed Store. This business was run as an extension of their general store on Middle Road. 

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Snedecor and Squires
Grain & Feed Store c.1904
 I. S. Snedecor & Sons Hay, Grain & Feed Store, Bayport in 1914.  Unfortunately, the structure no longer stands and small businesses now occupy the property that this feed store sat on.  Collection: Palmer School of Library and Information Sciences. Restored photo: Chris Klug Collection
I. S. Snedecor & Sons  1914 - Photo: A. Noble Chapman  Archive: Palmer School Library