Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Coram, NY

Coram is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, Long Island — and it is the oldest settlement in the central part of Brookhaven.

Coram had 40,220 residents in the 2020 Census, up from 39,113 people in 14,565 households in 2010, making it one of central Long Island's larger suburban communities.

Coram's early name was 'Wincoram,' possibly after a Native American who lived in the area as late as 1703, and its first European settler was likely William Satterly, who sought permission to open a tavern for travelers in 1677.

From 1784 to 1885 Coram was the seat of Brookhaven town government, because voters from across the huge town could reach its central location, gathering at the Davis Town Meeting House for the annual town meeting.

The Davis Town Meeting House, built in the 1750s and used as a farm, tavern, and stagecoach stop, is the oldest existing structure in Coram and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

On November 23, 1780, Major Benjamin Tallmadge's raiders stopped in Coram on their way back from capturing Fort St. George and burned 300 tons of hay stockpiled for the British army.

Coram covers about 13.8 square miles of the Long Island pine barrens edge, and it even had its own small airport until 1984.

Coram students attend schools in two districts — the Longwood Central School District, one of Long Island's biggest, and the Middle Country Central School District.