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 ...

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.

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.

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.