The hamlet of Coram is located in central Long Island, in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk. Long Island, New York is the fifth largest island in the USA. Coram is bounded on the north by Port Jefferson Station, on the east by Middle Island, on the south by Medford and on the west by Selden. It has a population of 25,250 and a median age of 33 years. The median household income is $60,830 and the median home value is presently $161,778. It is partly located in the Longwood School District, with 9,107 students. 35.l% students graduating go on to 2-year college and 40.1% graduated going to a 4-year college. The pupil/teacher ratio is 16-1. The other school district is Middle Country, with 10,152 students. There the pupil/teacher ratio is 15-1, with 34.8% going to a 4-year college and 44.1% going on to 2-year college.

The town has an interesting, long history, and was settled around 1685. The early name was ‘Wincoram’, which according to the native tribe of the Secatogues meant ‘a passage between hills’ or ‘a valley’. The land was purchased extremely inexpensive from the Indians and was originally used for cattle pasture by the settlers. The Davis House was the oldest building, and was the main seat of government for Brookhaven Town for over 100 years, from about 1784 to 1885, because of its centralized location. Wagons filled with voters from 10 to 20 miles around gathered each year on the first Tuesday in April for the annual ‘town meeting day’. Voting at the house was conducted in the west front room. The upper rooms were used for canvassing votes. The Justices of the Peace acted as inspectors and also canvassers, and many times canvassed their own votes. In 1884, a proposition to vote in election districts was carried by a large majority. This, of course, ending the town meeting day, which was a sort of a clearing house where old friends reunited and dinner could be served for 50 cents. Now, thanks to an agreement with Brookhaven Town, the four-acre property owned by Lester Davis, located at the northeast corner of Middle Country Road and Coram-Mount Sinai Road will be preserved. The condition is that property rights of the home and an acre of surrounding land be turned over to the town. Built in 1750, the house has been used as a farm, tavern and stagecoach stop, and also as a site for local militia in the War of 1812, led by Captain Lester Davis.

The town ‘poor house’ was established here in 1817, used until 1872, when the inmates were transferred to the new county house in Yaphank. During the Revolutionary War, petty skirmishes and robberies took place here and a 300-ton hay stack collected by British troops, was burned by a party of the Setauket Secret Spy Ring, and a close associate of General George Washington. The first Baptist church in Suffolk County was erected in 1747. That building was sold in 1847 and moved to Port Jefferson where it was made into a house. Coram’s town pump,located at the intersection of Route 112 and Middle Country Road, was made possible in 1883 by public financing, costing $9.50. Brookhaven’s first Post Office was established in Coram in 1794. The Coram Volunteer Fire Department was established in 1929 and the 3^rd and present building was erected in 1959.