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Lecture: The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico

The Tragic Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico on the South Shore of Long Island

Learn about two tragic shipwrecks that happened in 1836 off the South Shore of Long Island. This tragedy would remain forgotten for 170 years, if not for a mass grave and an obelisk in Lynbrook.

Instructor: Arthur S. Mattson, Historian

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