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Quogue Historical Society — Shinnecock Family History

A public museum and research collection preserving Quogue history, including the Enos family and the Shinnecock Arms. Read alongside family records, the 1938 Shinnecock Arms listing shows how local history reaches beyond buildings and place names into work, hospitality and the barriers travelers faced. Keeping these records accessible makes those relationships part of Quogue’s public history. The Quogue Historical Society preserves evidence of Shinnecock family life within the village. Its research draws on a 1992 oral history by descendant Muriel Barnes Rains and documents relating to the Enos family and Shinnecock Arms. The Enos family and Shinnecock Arms, Quogue Abram Edwin Enos built the family home in 1899. His wife, Mary Nancy Lee Enos, was Shinnecock. Their daughter, schoolteacher Mathilda “Tillie” Enos Dent, later operated it as the Shinnecock Arms, accommodating workers employed...