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BOHEMIA, NEW YORK 11716
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BOHEMIA'S FIRST HOUSES


                    

















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THE LATEST NUMBER OF THE BHS NEWSLETTER IS NOW AVAILABLE -
10 PAGES OF INFORMATION AND HISTORY.
EMAIL OR WRITE FOR A COPY.

When the Kratochvil's, Vavra's and Koula's settled in the area in 1855, it fell to Joseph Koula, a cabinet maker, to build homes.The house on the right was on Smithtown Avenue. The picture is undated. The building eventually became part of Frank Huml's cigar factory until the 1930s.

The small building in the center  was the home built for Jan and Barbara Vavra. This picture, undated, still has the outside water pump and  bucket. The house was also on Smithtown Avenue where it later belonged to Theodore Kruta, one of the town's butchers.
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JUNE 7 AT 6PM AT THE MUSEUM

COVERED DISH DINNER
BRING A DISH TO SHARE
(PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN PLATE AND UTENSILS)
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The BHS and the Bohemia community are grateful to the Bohemia Civic Association for the excellent improvements to the War Memorial on the grounds of the John Pearl school. Besides the paving, benches and floral arrangements, stones have been added to commemorate the veterans of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as of World Wars I and II.
May there never be the need to add a stone to remember still another war.
A NEW LIFE
EASTER HAD A SPECIAL MEANING THIS YEAR FOR THE PARISHIONERS OF ST. JOHN NEPOMUCENE CHURCH AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF BOHEMIA. THE ORIGINAL CHURCH, BUILT IN 1885 AND THE PARISH CHURCH FOR ALMOST A CENTURY, WAS BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE ON APRIL 3. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE BUILDING REMAINS STRUCTURALLY SOUND AND WILL BE RESTORED, INCLUDING THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. THE SAD NEWS OF THE FIRE BROUGHT OUT HOW MUCH THE BUILDING MEANS TO PARISHIONERS, BOTH THOSE WHO REMEMBER IT AS THEIR PLACE OF WORSHIP AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE, FOR WHOM IT HAS BEEN A CENTER IN MORE RECENT YEARS.                      FOR MORE ON ST. JOHN'S, GO TO HISTORY.
THE MUSEUM IS OPEN
  2 - 4PM
2ND AND 4TH SUNDAYS
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER
OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT