Setauket Photo From 1954 Shows Sheppard’s Bar and Grill

On Monday we showed you an historical photo from the Three Village Historical Society and asked you to guess where it was taken.

Once a candy and tobacco shop, the building at 290 Main Street in East Seatuket has changed hands over the years and is currently the home of Beyond the Thimble. At the time the photo was taken, the place was a popular bar, according to the historical society.

"This building on the south side of Route 25A is best known as Sheppard’s Bar and Grill, previously Charlie Jayne’s Confectionary, selling candy, tobacco, and cigars," the society wrote in an email to Patch. "Jayne’s was the center of a continuous poker game that extended to the days of Sheppard’s Bar."

Bar owner Sidney Sheppard sponsored the local baseball team and provided it with a home base.

"By the time of this 1954 photograph, Sheppard’s was owned by Joe Bolduc, a Canadian."

A photograph from the book "The Three Villages, Then and Now" by the historical society published in 2008 shows the photo of the building pictured here and occupied by Sweetleaf Boutique. Today, the store is occupied by Beyond the Thimble, a sewing and quilting supply shop.

Among the goals of the Three Village Historical Society in its mission is to nurture the public appreciation for the area's historical heritage and develop educational resources that provide access to the Society's store of knowledge.

Come to a presentation by journalist Christopher Collora titled "The Other Gatsby: Long Island Historic Houses of the South Shore" on June 17 at 7 p.m. at The Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main Street. For more information, call (631) 751-3730 or visit www.TVHS.org. The Three Village Historical Society’s Lecture Series  is free and open to the public.

Also join the historical society for some upcoming walking tours of the Three Village area:

• On June 9 at 2 p.m. take a tour of the Setauket Village Green. The tour takes an hour and a half and starts at the Setauket Neighborhood House, 95 Main Street.
• On June 22 at 2 p.m. take a "Walk Through History with Farmer and Spy Abraham Woodhull" with Historian Beverly Tyler. The tour lasts two and a half hours and commences at the Caroline Church Carriage Shed (opposite Setauket Village Green).
• There is a new Stony Brook Village Tour on Sunday June 30 at 2 p.m. The tour lasts one hour and starts from the Town of Brookhaven parking lot (opposite the Three Village Inn).

All tours are $3 for members and $5 for non-members. Contact the office for more information at (631) 751-3730.