Backstory: Montauk Shores Condominium & Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
Dan’s Papers
By Dan Rattiner
The Montauk Shores Condominium, a property at Ditch Plains, was originally a tent camp founded in 1898. At that time, it was home away from home for Colonel Teddy Roosevelt’s 1,020 Rough Riders, a cavalry unit that charged up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War and was now in Montauk…














