The Great Long Island Sphinx - Bayport, New york.
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N 40° 44.864 W 073° 02.899
18T E 664768 N 4512585
The Great Long Island Sphinx was built by Captain Will Graham in the 1900s to attract people to his Anchorage Inn also built by him in 1897.
Waymark Code: WM187VV
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2023
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Sign on the Sphinx states: She who climbs to the Sphinx's head a Millionaire will surely Wed
Second Sign: Please KEEP OFF Climbing Sphinx is Prohibited
When the Inn burned to the ground in the 20's, the Sphinx was moved to the side of the gas station that was built on the site. It was operated by the Ferri family from the early 30's to 1973, when the family sold their land and the gas station to a Long Island company called Power Test. If Lou and John Fontana, owners of Fontana Concrete in Bayport, didn't move it to Bayport, the Sphinx wouldn't exist today. In the fall of 1981, the Fontana brothers began their restoration of the Great Long Island Sphinx. Finished in 1983, it sits in front of Fontana Concrete to this day as a memorial to the Inn and its builder, Will Graham, Lou Fontana and the Ferri family who kept the Sphinx intact.
(source) Blue Point Remembered by Gene Horton
Statue Name: The Sphinx
Style: Egyptian
Medium: Concrete
Head Type: Man
Website: [Web Link]
Street Address:
890 Montauk Highway
Baypot , New York United States
11705
Specify Other Head: Not listed
Head Namesake: Not listed
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