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Dutch farmers founded Whitestone in 1645, naming the area for a large, white limestone boulder along the shore. Purportedly, the Dutch purchased the land from the Matinecock at the price of one ax per fifty acres.
In 1765 the British granted this land to Francis Lewis, a Welsh-born merchant, as acknowledgment for his service in the French and Indian War. After his death in 1802, the property was eventually owned by farmer George L. Smith. His descendent H. DeWitt Smith inherited the estate and property around the turn of the 20th century. By this time the waterfront was known as Smith’s Shore. It remained with the Smith family until the 1930s when it was purchased by Edwin H. Brown.
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