Selected Bibliography

“Particles of the Past” Sandmining Project

Additional information about sandmining, mostly related to Long Island, can be found in the books and articles cited in this select bibliography. The list includes primary and secondary source materials, as well as newspaper articles and clippings gathered by the Port Washington Public Library Reference staff and the Bryant Library Archives (Roslyn, New York).

Abeles, Schwarz, Haeckel and Silberblatt, Inc., The Port Washington Sand Pits: A Development Concept. prepared for Morewood Realty Company, December, 1980. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Brooklyn Eagle, clippings file, c. 1897, Sand Pits and Gravel. Bryant Room, Bryant Library, Roslyn, New York.

Carruci, Mitch, Early Sand Mining in Port Washington, Long Island. Unpublished manuscript, c. 1980. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Chester, Catherine, Life As A Child of Immigrant Sardinian Parents. Unpublished manuscript, June 18, 1980. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Conklin Rossant, Planning for the Future of the Hempstead Harbor Lands: Development versus Preservation. Prepared for Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, July, 1983. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Dunn Geoscience Corporation, Slope Stability Investigation for McCormack Sand Company Open Pit Sand Mine. Port Washington, New York, January 25, 1985. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Fairbridge, Rhodes W., and Newman, Walter, Postglacial Crustal Subsidence of the New York Area. Berlin: Annals of Geomorphology, Verlad Gebruder Borntraeger, 1968, pp. 296-317.

Gordon, Ray, The Challenge of the Sand Mines. Report Prepared for the Long Island Sound Heritage Endowment, Sierra Club Foundation, April 1986, 12 pp. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Hofstra University, New York State Geological Association Guide Book. 47th Annual Meeting, 1975, Hempstead, New York: Geology Department, Hofstra University.

Kassner, Jeffrey, The Mining of Port Jefferson Harbor for Sand and Gravel. 1910-1948, Long Island Historical Journal, volume 8, number 2, pp. 213-224.

Kocher, Peg, Can We Save the Sand Pits? Unpublished manuscript, March 27, 1981, 37 pages. Sponsored by Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, PO Box 864, Port Washington, New York 11050.

LaGumina, Salvatore J., The Immigrants Speak: Italian Americans Tell Their Story. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1979.

__________________, From Steerage to the Suburbs: Long Island Italians. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1988.

Long Island Sound Regional Study, Mineral Resources and Mining, A Planning Report, 1976, New Haven, Connecticut: New England River Basins Commission, 1976.

Liebling, Richard and Scherp, Horst, Stratigraphic Importance of Chlorite in the Cretaceous Raritan Formation Underlying Coastal New York, Geological Society of America Bulletin, volume 86, p. 925-928, July, 1975, document number 50706.

Mathias, Elizabeth Lay, Sardinian Born and Bread, Natural History Magazine, January, 1983, pp. 54-63.

Mills, Herb and Wells, Paul D., Ice-Shove Deformation and Glacial Stratigraphy of Port Washington, Long Island, New York. Geological Society of American Bulletin, volume 85, pp. 357-364, March, 1974.

National Building Museum, Photo Files, J.B. King and Company Sand Bins and Dryer Building. For information, www.nbm.org in Washington, D.C.

Newsday, September 27, 1971 (pp. 1-2); November 10, 1973 (pp. 1-2); August 19, 1974 (pp. 1-2); February 14, 1979 (Barges).

New York State Office of Planning Coordination, Long Island Sand and Gravel Mining, July, 1970, pp. 11-18. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Otruba, J. Sinkinson, Long Island’s Grand Canyon, Long Island Magazine, April/May 1978, volume 6, number 4, pp. 18, 19, 38.

Port Washington News. Clippings File, 1902-1974, Port Washington Public Library Reference Room.

Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington, The Challenge of the Sand Pits, Port Washington:15 pp., n.d.

Roslyn News. Clippings File, 1892-1976. Bryant Room, Bryant Library, Roslyn, New York.

Sandmining Oral History Collection, Port Washington Public Library Local History Center.

Shodell, Elly, Particles of the Past: Sandmining on Long Island, 1870s-1980s. New York: Port Washington Public Library, 1985.

Sirkin, Les and Stuckenrath, Robert, The Port Washingtonian Warm Interval in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part 1, volume 91, pp. 332-336, June, 1980.

Sirkin, Leslie A., Geology, Geomorphology, and Late-Glacial Environments of Western Long Island, New York (or) Suburban Pleistocene Geology: Who Built a Parkway on My Bog? New York State Geological Association Guidebook to Field Excursions, Flushing, NY: Queens College (CUNY), 40th Annual Meeting, 1968.

Sirkin, Les, Wisconsinan Glaciation of Long Island, New York, to Block Island, Rhode Island. Unpublished manuscript, c. 1980, 59 pp. Port Washington Public Library Reference Room files.

Williams, George, Dr., Sand Mining in Port Washington: Its Impact on the Community, Long Island Forum, February, 1983, pp.32-38.

______________, The Early History of the West Shore of Hempstead Harbor, Long Island Forum, Spring, 2001, pp. 24-39.

Woodworth, J.B., Pleistocene Geology of Nassau County and Borough of Queens, New York State Museum Bulletin 48, December, 1901, pp. 618-670.