Ronkonkoma
Lake Ronkonkoma is a freshwater lake in Ronkonkoma. It is a kettle lake formed by retreating glaciers and is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island. It has a circumference of about 2 miles and is 0.65 miles across, on average. The lake is owned by the Town of Islip under the terms of the Nicolls Patent. The land around it is controlled by three town governments: Smithtown, Islip and Brookhaven. The separation originated because three different Native American communities claimed lands on different shores, and these claims continued when the tribes gave separate deeds to the land under their control. The name Ronkonkoma comes from an Algonquian expression meaning “boundary fishing-lake” The Indian tribes thought the lake was bottomless because people who had drowned would often just disappear and their bodies were never recovered.
Legend has it that Native American princess Tuskawanta died at the lake in the mid-1600s. The story goes…one winter, she walked across the ice when she met and fell in love with Hugh Birdsall, who lived across the lake. Her father, chief of the Setauket tribe forbade their relationship. Every day for 7 years, she would write letters on pieces of bark and row to the middle of the lake. She would then float the letters across the lake to Hugh. After all those years of being kept apart from her lover…one day, she rowed to the middle of the lake and took her own life. The myth has it that she claims a boy’s life every year to try to find herself a soulmate in death. And the statistics back up this curse. Of all the recorded drownings in the lake…the vast majority have been young males.
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Sold $1,090,000 List $949,000
4 4 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
2,593 Sqft 2,593 Sqft
3566220 Listing No. 3566220
House Property Type: House
Sold $1,050,000 List $1,175,000
5 5 Beds
4 | 1 4 | 1 Baths
4,200 Sqft 4,200 Sqft
3550221 Listing No. 3550221
House Property Type: House
Sold $999,950 List $1,100,000
4 4 Beds
3 3 Baths
2,000 Sqft 2,000 Sqft
819245 Listing No. 819245
House Property Type: House
Sold $960,000 List $989,000
5 5 Beds
3 | 2 3 | 2 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
3494134 Listing No. 3494134
House Property Type: House
Sold $950,000 List $1,025,000
7 7 Beds
4 4 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
3354063 Listing No. 3354063
House Property Type: House
Sold $940,000 List $799,999
4 4 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
2,900 Sqft 2,900 Sqft
840739 Listing No. 840739
House Property Type: House
Sold $920,000 List $859,000
5 5 Beds
4 4 Baths
3,359 Sqft 3,359 Sqft
3572185 Listing No. 3572185
House Property Type: House
Sold $880,000 List $799,000
5 5 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
3555468 Listing No. 3555468
House Property Type: House
Sold $870,000 List $895,000
4 4 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
3550258 Listing No. 3550258
House Property Type: House
Sold $865,000 List $874,900
4 4 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
2,700 Sqft 2,700 Sqft
3534511 Listing No. 3534511
House Property Type: House
Sold $855,560 List $869,000
4 4 Beds
2 | 1 2 | 1 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
3537045 Listing No. 3537045
House Property Type: House
Sold $855,000 List $824,990
4 4 Beds
3 3 Baths
N/A Sqft N/A Sqft
L3576227 Listing No. L3576227
House Property Type: House
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