Long Island’s Town of Oyster Bay will unveil an historical marker on Carll Hill Road telling the story behind the naming of the road. David Carll was a Black Long Islander who enlisted when he was eighteen years old to serve with the Union’s 26th Regiment of United States Colored Troops.
Carll lived on this road after his discharge and his family still lives there 160 years later. The two women in the photo are Iris Williams and Denice Evans-Sheppard, two descendants of Carll. Denise Evans-Sheppard told Newsday that:
“I’m quite sure that David Carll is looking down on us and is very pleased that we have been able to tell his story.”
Carll was virtually unknown to Long Islanders until the Civil War Sesquicentennial when Carll’s family released research they had done on his service. Since then, his house had a marker put up where he lived after the war.
Carll Hill Road is off of Pine Hollow Road.
Read more about the 26th Regiment of United States Colored Troops.
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