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This room was the post office and general
store and bank in the 19th century. The building was supposedly
brought from across the pond and attached to the 1720 building.
This building dates to about 1820. After becoming a community
house, the room was set with a pool table and became the game/smoker
room for the gentlemen to retire to for a game, a smoke, and
conversation. It functioned this way until the early 1950s
and in the 1960s the two pool tables were donated to
the Setauket and Stony Brook Fire Departments where they still
reside. The short captains chairs and pedestal tables
are all that remain of the rooms original furniture.
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