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Calverton is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 6,510 at the 2010 census. Most of Calverton is in the Town of Riverhead with a mostly undeveloped smaller portion in the Town of Brookhaven. ==History== Calverton was first referred to as "Baiting Hollow Station" when the Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1844. The station closed in 1958, but the sheltered shed for the station remained standing as of 2007.〔(LIRR Shelters(TrainsAreFun.com) )〕〔(Calverton LIRR Shelter (August 17, 2007) )〕 The area's native American name was ''Conungum'' or ''Kanungum'', meaning "fixed line" or "boundary". In 1868 the Calverton post office opened, named for Bernard J. Calvert. It remained a small farming community specializing in cranberries which grew in swampy areas along the Peconic River until the Navy purchase. Calverton's history is tied closely to Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Calverton. The United States Navy purchased around Calverton from a local farmer named Harry Edwards in 1953, including the mansion of a grandson of F.W. Woolworth, so that Grumman could test and finish jets. A runway was built, and most of Grumman's F-14 Tomcat and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft were to pass through the plant. In 1965 Nelson Rockefeller proposed using the base as the fourth major airport for the New York metropolitan area. Grumman and local opposition ended the quest. In 1978 more than of the base was used to create Calverton National Cemetery, which is the largest and busiest (in terms of burials per day) United States national cemetery. In 1995, after Northrop acquired Grumman, the new Northrop Grumman pulled out of the base and the Navy began liquidating the land. In 1996 before the base could be turned over the Town of Riverhead, the base was used to reassemble the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 which had crashed about south in the ocean. In 2000 Skydive Long Island (formerly located at East Moriches) moved to the airport, and to this day continues to generate the majority of the current air traffic as a key destination for New York-based skydivers. Through 2007, debates raged whether to turn the base into a mega complex around a NASCAR track called EPCAL Centre or a giant ski resort based construction of an artificial high indoor ski mountain. In January 2008 the Riverhead Town Board with newly elected officers signed a deal to sell the airport for $155 million to Riverhead Resorts to build the ski mountain and tear up the airport runway and replace it with a lake, overruling a December vote to give the NASCAR track the go-ahead. It will take up to three years to get the necessary environmental permits, and the proposed opening date of the project was 2012.〔(Riverhead officials approve ski mountain project - Newsday - January 3, 2008 )〕 On November 12, 2010, however, the town of Riverhead voted 4-1 to cancel all plans for the indoor ski resort/water park.〔()〕 A portion of the base is being developed as an industrial/office park.〔(Riverhead Town page on Calverton Enterprise Park )〕 Several new medium size industrial companies have sprung up in the area, including Crown Recycling and a Federal Express Distribution Center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calverton, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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