Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island in New York. The cemetery's street address is in Calverton but the property is in the adjacent hamlet of Wading River. It encompasses 1,045 acres (423 ha) and as of the end of 2008 had 212,000 interments.
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Wading River is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, Wading River had a population of 7,731. It is adjacent to Shoreham and shares a school district.
Most of Wading River lies within the Town of Riverhead, but a small portion is in the Town of Brookhaven. The name of the hamlet comes from the original Algonquian name for the area, Pauquaconsuk, meaning "the place where we wade for thick, round-shelled clams". It was also previously known as “Lonsefekwa”. "Wading in the River" or Wading River was adopted by the first English colonists.
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Wading River was the terminus of the abandoned Wading River Extension on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. This is an abandoned station just outside south of downtown Wading River, and was located on Wading River-Manor Road north of New York State Route 25A.
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Calverton Executive Airpark also known as Peconic River Airport and Enterprise Park at Calverton was a public-owned private-use airport located three miles west of the central business district of the Calverton hamlet, in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is owned by the Town of Riverhead.
It was formerly the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton which was owned by the United States Navy and used to assemble, test, refit and retrofit jets built by the Grumman Corporation on Long Island.
The airport covers an area of 2,921 acres which contains two asphalt and concrete runways: 14/32 measuring 10,000 by 200 feet and 5/23 measuring 7,000 by 200 feet.
The airport was lightly used for air traffic in lieu of the nearby Francis S. Gabreski Airport. Its last remaining air client, Skydive Long Island, closed permanently in 2015.
In 2021, The Town Board of Riverhead approved the airport to be the venue of Division 1 National Hot Rod Association drag racing events. The airport held inaugural NHRA drag racing events in summer 2021.
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Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton was a government-owned, contractor-operated facility which had the mission of designing, fabricating, and testing prototype aircraft from 1956 until 1996, in Riverhead, New York, United States.
After transfer from the United States Navy, it is now home to Calverton National Cemetery and Calverton Executive Airpark.
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The Long Island Rail Road Demonstration Farm was an American demonstration farm project on Long Island, New York. It was conducted by the Long Island Rail Road in the early years of the 20th century. Experimental Station No. 1 was built up in the North Shore pine barrens at Wading River by the Wading River station, and Station No. 2, cleared from the middle Long Island scrub-oak wastes at Medford by the Medford station.
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It has the largest area of any national cemetery in the United States, and the busiest (in terms of daily burials) conducting more than 7,000 burials each year as of 2011.