Plumbing Services in Tompkinsville, NY

Tompkinsville, located in the Town of Castleton, was the site where early European explorers replenished their fresh water supplies and was known in colonial times as the “Watering Place”. It was opposite the Watering Place that the then largest British expeditionary force, with 450 ships and 32,000 soldiers, arrived in Upper New York Bay and landed in advance of the American Revolutionary War. In 1799, the New York state government took 30 acres (12 ha) along the waterfront, upon which it established the New York Marine Hospital (also “The Quarantine”), a contagious disease hospital.

In 1815, a settlement was established by New York state governor, Daniel D. Tompkins, in the neighborhood next to the existing quarantine station. He was elected Vice President the following year. In 1817 Tompkins built a dock at the foot of present-day Victory Boulevard and began offering steam ferry service to Manhattan. Angry residents burned down the Quarantine in 1858 in a series of attacks known as the Staten Island Quarantine War. Although there were no deaths as a result of the attack, the arsonists completely destroyed the hospital compound.

In the early 1900s, the telephone exchange that served Staten Island’s eastern North Shore was named after the neighborhood; the name of this exchange was changed to “Saint George” in the mid-1920s, and to “Saint George 7” when New York Telephone upgraded telephone service throughout New York City in December 1930. Converted for All-Number Calling, “727” still exists on the island today. It is the sole surviving number of the designations of the 1920s.