John Santos, secretary of the Roslyn Landmark Society, has provided a historical pictorial map of the Roslyn "as it was in the year 1870." The map was created by the team of Catherine and E. Theodore Nelson in the late 1960s in their St. James Studio. The Roslyn map highlights the significant roads, buildings and residences with their owner names.
The Nelsons created historical pictorial maps for other Long Island villages including: Port Washington, Sands Point, East Hampton, Bridgehampton and Southampton.
Each map was signed off by the Nelsons: “Done from the old and musty records by Catherine and E. Theodore Nelson.”
This pdf breaks the map into several sections for greater detail.
The primary reference for the Nelson map was the 1873 map of Roslyn published by Beer. Comstock & Cline. An online version can be found on the David Rumsey Map Collection website and the below pdf in our project files.
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