St James Episcopal Church

St. James' Episcopal Church Brookhaven, NY's mission has its beginnings some time prior to 1872, when the Rev. Charles Douglas held services within the home of Charles Sweezey which stood on the N E corner of Beaver Dam and Fireplace Neck Road. A lady who boarded with Mr. Sweezey wrote to Bishop Littlejohn asking him to establish an Episcopal Church in Brookhaven. It wasn't until the 3rd appeal that the Bishop commanded Mr. Cook to develop a church. On July 22, 1872, John L. Ireland and Mary Floyd, his wife, deeded to the Trustees of the Diocese a plot of land on the NE corner of his farm.