NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide Incorporated in 1921

Incorporated in 1921

but apparently the waves were pumping

its main industry

Sailors Haven is home to one of the best known areas of Fire Island National Seashore—the Sunken Forest

Not that you needed to know

NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide Incorporated in 1921In 1775, as the Revolution took hold, New Yorkers hauled down the British flag and raised a white flag with a single black beaver at its center; flown from the armed ships of New York as a break from the Crown. The beaver traced back to the Dutch settlers of New Netherland, a symbol of the fur trade that built the colony into a city. No documented illustration of the original has ever been found, but the beaver never left. It's still the official