The American patriot Nathan Hale was caught 248 years ago this weekend for spying against the British on Long Island — and hanged for treason. Hale, just 21 years old, had been in the Huntington ...

MEMORIAL TO NATHAN HALE.; The Statue Erected by the Sons of the Revolution to be Dedicated Nov. 25. Share full article. Nov. 19, 1893. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

When he was 14, in 1769, Nathan Hale and his older brother Enoch,* left the Coventry homestead and, riding horseback through the September ... it was buried in an unmarked grave and forgotten.

HUNTINGTON, L.I., Jan. 7. -- A movement has been started here for the erection of a statue to the memory of Nathan Hale, who was captured on the shore of Huntington Bay by the British.