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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Port Jefferson Station]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Here we have a 1947 aerial view showing the Gentlemen&#039;s Driving Park (GDP) with Canal Road just to the west of the track and Route 112 northwest of Canal Road. The GDP is the last Victorian Era harness racing track left on Long Island. It was a first class, half mile oval. Built in the early 1880s, it was part of the Grand Circuit of Harness Racing Tracks and a member of the National Association of Trotting Parks. The track is now a Brookhaven Town Historical Landmark.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1947]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Photograph courtesy of Walter DeHart]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harness Racing Horse with High Wheel Sulky]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Photo of harness racing horse with high wheel sulky at the Joseph Rowland Farm in Miller Place. The beloved racehorse, Echo, was sired by Regulus at this farm, which is now the Miller Place Inn. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Photograph courtesy of the Miller Place-Mount Sinai Historical Society]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Driver Ben Sill with a high wheeled sulky. Presumably at Comsewogue Stables]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wagers at the race track were usually around $50 with scheduled races at around $75, divided 3 ways. The average time for a mile race (twice around the 1/2 mile track) was about 3 minutes, with faster horses racing under the 3 minute mark. The winner of the races between the trotting horses, usually no more than 3, was the best out of 5 heats. After the sanctioned races were over, the &quot;Brushes&quot; were held which were open races between the locals with any type of horse and any type of vehicle. These were often very colorful to watch.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Photograph from the Davis Family Collection. Courtesy of the Brookhaven Town Historian&#039;s Office]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Trotting horses training at the Gentlemen&#039;s Driving Park]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Wagers at the race track were usually around $50 with scheduled races at around $75, divided 3 ways. The average time for a mile race (twice around the 1/2 mile track) was about 3 minutes, with faster horses racing under the 3 minute mark. The winner of the races between the trotting horses, usually no more than 3, was the best out of 5 heats. After the sanctioned races were over, the &quot;Brushes&quot; were held which were open races between the locals with any type of horse and any type of vehicle. These were often very colorful to watch.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[c1900]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Photograph from the Davis Family Collection. Courtesy of the Brookhaven Town Historian&#039;s Office]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Echo the Beloved Racehorse]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Captain Nathaniel Dickerson&#039;s famous bay, Echo, whom the hamlet was named after, was a local trotter renowned for his speed, agility and race winning ways.  After some diligent research, his stud book and pedigree were discovered, and what a pedigree it was.  Echo was sired at the Joseph Rowland Farm in Miller Place, now the Miller Place Inn.  His lineage can be traced back to Hambletonian 10 and the famous Imported Messenger.  Messenger is considered the progenitor of the standard bred horse in America.  Echo was &quot;Horse Royalty!&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Courtesy of Patty Saffran]]></dcterms:rights>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://localhistory.cplib.org/items/show/108">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Port Jefferson Station]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A 1957 aerial photograph of Port Jefferson Station. Rather than the traffic light that exists now, there used to be a traffic circle that intersected at Routes 347 and 112, as well as Canal Road. Note the clear oval outline (bottom right of the image) is the former 19th century Gentlemen&#039;s Driving Park, the last remaining Victorian Era harness racing track left on Long Island.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1957]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[Courtesy of the Port Jefferson Fire Department]]></dcterms:rights>
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