History
And Did You Know That...
- Until the middle of the last century, Sag Harbor rivaled New York as the busiest port of entry in the US...
- Before the Revolutionary War, East Hampton was part of the colony of Connecticut, not New York...
- Amagansett was the only part of the US ever 'invaded' by the enemy in World War II...
- The oldest cattle ranch in the US is not in Texas, the West, or South but in Montauk...
- Division Street in the village of Sag Harbor, which is half in East Hampton and half in Southampton, marked the border between the two towns, one dry, one wet...
- The Trustees of the Town of East Hampton, governing under a royal patent, own the waterways and land under...
- Windmills on the East End are English, not Dutch...
- East Hampton was settled in 1648 by settlers from Connecticut and Massachusetts who came across Long Island Sound...
- Gardiner's Island was granted to Lion Gardiner by the King of England and has been in the Gardiner family for over 300 years...
- Joseph Smith, who was banished from East Hampton for some long forgotten infraction, founded Smithtown...
- The original Village of Montauk was destroyed by the hurricane of 1938 and replaced by the current village a few miles away...
- The East Hampton Star publishes every Letter to the Editor - unedited...
- East Hampton was spelled as one word, Easthampton, until the first issue of the East Hampton Star which spelled it as two words...
- East Hampton was voted Most Beautiful Village in America by National Geographic Magazine...