Central Islip Psychiatric Center

[2] Kings County Farm Colony opened in the fall of 1886 to house those from Brooklyn.

49 male and 40 female patients were admitted in 1889 for "O&O" (Occupation and Oxygen) and "R&R" (Rest and Relaxation) at a working farm.

Patients cleared the land, constructed buildings, made the furniture and mattresses, sewed their clothing, grew crops and raised dairy cattle, pigs and chickens.

Until the Great Depression patients would arrive by a special hospital train with bars on the windows on a siding off the Long Island Rail Road.

Islip Town Fire Museum, Fairfield Properties Ballpark, and the Alfonse M. D'Amato United States Courthouse are also on the land.

One of the original buildings which is now used for the Central Islip Recreation Center
The 1953 Central Islip State Hospital Powerplant which was imploded in 2006.