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called \"The Reel\"; the property passed through several owners, including 19th-century baseball player John Montgomery Ward, before becoming Phelps Lane Park in 1960.[4] The mansion standing in the park today dates to 1942, built as the country home of Dr. David and Else Schnur, a Jewish family who had fled Nazi Germany before World War II; the Schnurs named their pond Elda Lake, and their former residence later became the Town of Babylon Parks Department's headquarters.[4]", "Royal Phelps is credited with introducing August Belmont Sr. to the area; beginning in 1867 Belmont purchased 1,300 acres on which he built a horse-breeding farm and a 24-room mansion (the Belmont Stakes is named for him).[4] A row of pine trees Belmont planted leading to his estate still stands in the median of the Southern State Parkway, which was later built through the old estate grounds.[4] During World War I, Belmont's son August Belmont Jr. leased the racetrack portion of the estate to the U.S. Army, which ran it as an aviation training field, Camp Damm, named for Lt. Col. Henry J. Damm, killed in service on May 2, 1918; the Army disbanded the camp after the war.[4] Part of the Belmont estate later became Belmont Lake State Park, and most of the remaining land was sold for housing.[4][9]" ] }, { "id": "roads", "heading": "How the roads got here", "paragraphs": [ "NYSDOT's official touring-route description of NY 27 (Sunrise Highway) runs it through \"Massapequa Park, North Babylon, Great River, North Patchogue,\" naming North Babylon directly among the hamlets the highway serves.[10] The Southern State Parkway was built directly across the former Belmont estate -- a legacy visible today in the line of Belmont's ornamental pines still standing in the parkway median west of Belmont Avenue.[4]" ] }, { "id": "government", "heading": "Government, courts and policing", "paragraphs": [ "North Babylon has no government of its own; as an unincorporated hamlet it falls under the Town of Babylon for municipal services.[1] The hamlet is patrolled by the Suffolk County Police Department's First Precinct, headquartered in West Babylon, which \"proudly covers the Town of Babylon.\"[7][8] Belmont Lake State Park, within North Babylon, has served since 1935 as the regional administrative headquarters for all Long Island state parks and as headquarters for the New York State Park Police.[9] The Town of Babylon's Adjudication Bureau hears Notices of Violation for Town Code health, safety and welfare matters, and the Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency describes itself as adjudicating moving violations, parking summonses and red-light camera citations \"in the five western towns of Suffolk County\" without naming those towns on its own department page.[11][12]" ] } ], "legalCases": [], "landmarks": [ { "name": "Belmont Lake State Park", "designation": "New York State park, established 1926 on the former August Belmont Sr. estate; regional Long Island state park headquarters since 1935", "src": [ 9 ] }, { "name": "Phelps Lane Park (former Phelps/Schnur estate)", "designation": "Town of Babylon park; no register listing verified", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "name": "Row of Belmont estate pine trees, Southern State Parkway median west of Belmont Avenue", "designation": "Surviving landscape feature of the former Belmont estate; no register listing", "src": [ 4 ] } ], "notableFacts": [ { "text": "A row of ornamental pine trees August Belmont Sr. planted at his North Babylon estate still stands in the median of the Southern State Parkway, west of Belmont Avenue.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "During World War I, the racetrack of Belmont's North Babylon estate became a U.S. Army aviation training field, Camp Damm, named for an aviator killed in service in 1918.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "Belmont Lake State Park, on the site of Belmont's horse-breeding farm, has served as the administrative headquarters for all of Long Island's state parks since 1935.", "src": [ 9 ] }, { "text": "The country mansion now used by the Town of Babylon Parks Department was built in 1942 for a Jewish family, the Schnurs, who had fled Nazi Germany before World War II.", "src": [ 4 ] }, { "text": "North Babylon's school district was Town of Huntington School District No. 19 before 1872 and Town of Babylon School District No. 3 afterward, before becoming North Babylon Union Free School District.", "src": [ 2 ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": 1, "title": "Hamlet of North Babylon (Town of Babylon History Book)", "publisher": "Town of Babylon (Office of the Town Historian)", "url": "https://tobhistorian.blogspot.com/p/hamlet-of-north-babylon-town-of-babylon.html", "year": "n.d.", "type": "government" }, { "id": 2, "title": "Hamlet of North Babylon (Town of Babylon History Book) -- schools and ZIP code", "publisher": "Town of Babylon (Office of the Town Historian)", "url": "https://tobhistorian.blogspot.com/p/hamlet-of-north-babylon-town-of-babylon.html", "year": "n.d.", "type": "government" }, { "id": 3, "title": "Hamlet of North Babylon (Town of 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