Deep Hollow Ranch Oldest Cattle Ranch In The Usa

by John Telfer

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Deep Hollow Ranch Oldest Cattle Ranch In The Usa

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John Telfer

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While taking a long vacation weekend in the middle of February in Montauk, New York, I decided to go horse back riding along the beach and through some of the trails. I made the reservations at the hotel I was staying at and they told me the forecast called for a calm 40 degree day. When I woke up the next morning I saw it was snowing and in the low 30 degree range. I went ahead anyway to the ranch, when I arrived their I saw this sign which said, "DEEP HOLLOW RANCH" with a statement under it which read, "OLDEST CATTLE RANCH IN THE USA", EST. 1658. I asked one of the people working their if the sign was correct and they said, "yes of course". After my ride I checked through various sources and everything I read did indicate that this site that I had just went horseback riding on was the oldest cattle ranch in the USA.
For more information on this very historical sign and location, please feel free to read below;
As settlers from the United States moved west, they brought cattle breeds developed on the east coast and in Europe along with them, and adapted their management to the drier lands of the west by borrowing key elements of the Spanish vaquero culture.
However, there were cattle on the eastern seaboard. Deep Hollow Ranch, 110 miles (180 km) east of New York City in Montauk, New York, claims to be the first ranch in the United States, having continuously operated since 1658. The ranch makes the somewhat debatable claim of having the oldest cattle operation in what today is the United States, though cattle had been run in the area since European settlers purchased land from the Indian people of the area in 1643. Although there were substantial numbers of cattle on Long Island, as well as the need to herd them to and from common grazing lands on a seasonal basis, the cattle handlers actually lived in houses built on the pasture grounds, and cattle were ear-marked for identification, rather than being branded. The only actual "cattle drives" held on Long Island consisted of one drive in 1776, when the Island's cattle were moved in a failed attempt to prevent them from being captured by the British during the American Revolution, and three or four drives in the late 1930s, when area cattle were herded down Montauk Highway to pasture ground near Deep Hollow Ranch
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