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54-582: The Sag Harbor State Golf Course is 48.8-acre (197,000 m), 9-hole golf facility is located in the middle of a 341-acre (1.38 km) parcel known as the Barcelona Neck Natural Resources Management Area. The golf course is entirely located in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County , New York , United States . The course first opened in 1926 and was run by a group of volunteers for over half

108-554: A century. The property was acquired by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in 1989. The course was taken over by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1997. 40°59′50″N 72°15′43″W  /  40.9971°N 72.2620°W  / 40.9971; -72.2620 East Hampton (town), New York The Town of East Hampton

162-627: A home for the wealthy especially after the Gardiners married into almost all the wealthy New York City families. More than one hundred miles from Manhattan, East Hampton remained largely undeveloped until 1880 when Austin Corbin extended the Long Island Rail Road from Bridgehampton to Montauk. As part of the development, Arthur W. Benson forced an auction and paid US$ 151,000 for 10,000 acres (40 km ) around Montauk. He forced

216-859: A national scandal, since there was a 30-year difference in their ages. Although Tyler was a member of the wealthy Gardiner family and a former First Lady of the United States, she had economic problems after the American Civil War . She and her husband had supported the Confederate States of America . She is buried with the President in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia , the Confederate capital during

270-594: A port status, rivaling New York, due to its whale oil trade. Many slaves worked on the docks in connection with shipping and the whale trade. After slavery had ended, Gardiner's former slaves developed small houses in Freetown (East Hampton) , just north of East Hampton village. Sag Harbor's freedmen developed the Eastville community in Sag Harbor. In 1808 the United States and Great Britain cooperated in ending

324-769: A royal family that had rivals as far away as the Narragansetts of Connecticut . The Montauk Tribe of Indians were tributary or allied to the Pequots , the Narragansetts enemies. The end of the Pequot war (1636–38) saw the Pequots decimated as the toll of contact with the Europeans via the fur trade and superior numbers of Narragansetts ended their dominance on Long Island. With the Narragansetts set to eradicate

378-471: Is located in southeastern Suffolk County , New York , at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island . It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States census , it had a total population of 28,385. The town includes the village of East Hampton , as well as the hamlets of Montauk , Amagansett , Wainscott , and Springs . It also includes part of

432-583: Is the oldest continuously operating cattle ranch in the United States. East Hampton is bounded by Southampton to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Block Island Sound to the east, and Napeague Bay to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 386.6 square miles (1,001 km ), of which 74.4 square miles (193 km ) is land and 312.2 square miles (809 km ) (80.76%)

486-498: Is water. East Hampton has an Oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfb). East Hampton has chilly, wet winters and very warm, dry summers due to the moderating influence of the ocean, which suppresses thunderstorm development and moderates summer temperatures. Summers have very warm, sunny, and stable weather, whereas the winters are often stormy due to coastal storms which bring rain but little snow. The region averages only about 10 inches or 0.25 metres of snow annually. While East Hampton

540-526: The Bonin Islands . The ship was allowed to enter Tokyo Bay under escort to return the sailors. As Japan had been closed to foreign shipping, it was the first American ship to visit Tokyo. Concer was the first African American the Japanese had seen. He is depicted in their drawings of the event. East Hampton from its earliest days with the settlement of Gardiners Island has had a reputation as being

594-604: The Brothertown Indians with other Indians from New England, and gave up some of their traditions. In 1831-1836, the Brothertown Indians migrated to Wisconsin , where they founded the settlement of Brothertown . Some Montaukett continued to live on Long Island. In the mid to late nineteenth century, their most well-known member was Stephen Talkhouse . Their area on Lake Montauk was called Indian Fields until 1879. With their population reduced, over

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648-569: The Montaukett , who were Pequot, controlled most of the territory at the east end of Long Island. Indians inhabiting the western part of Long Island were part of the Lenape nation, whose language is also in the Algonquian family. Their territory extended to lower New York, western Connecticut and the mid-Atlantic coastal areas into New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Their bands were also known by

702-453: The U.S. Navy ship USS Washington , seeing the slaves on shore, arrested them and took them to Connecticut. This was an international case, with Spain arguing for the return of the ship and slaves (or compensation). The United States had its own laws to interpret. The Mende people who had been illegally taken argued for their freedom. Amistad case was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841. John Quincy Adams argued for

756-609: The 17th and 18th centuries from epidemics of smallpox , a Eurasian disease carried by some English and Dutch colonists and endemic in their communities, to which the Indians had no immunity . After the American Revolution , some Montaukett relocated with Shinnecock to Oneida County in western upstate New York, led by the Mohegan missionary Samson Occom , to try to escape the settlers' civilization. They formed

810-520: The African slave trade, but Spain continued to transport slaves to its Caribbean and Latin American colonies. On August 26, 1839, crew from La Amistad , an illegal slave ship that had been commandeered by its captives off Cuba , dropped anchor at Culloden Point and came ashore at Montauk to get supplies. The slaves, who were inexperienced navigators, thought they were on course to Africa. Members of

864-635: The Africans. The court decided in their favor, opining that the initial capture of the Mende by the Spanish was illegal, so they were classified as free men defending their freedom and were not charged under slave law with mutiny or revolt. East Hampton film director Steven Spielberg popularized the slave revolt and Supreme Court case in the 1997 film Amistad . One of the Amistad former slaves stayed in

918-580: The American Revolutionary War, New York passed a gradual abolition law, making children free who were born to slave mothers. But the last slaves were not freed until 1827. During the War of 1812 , the Gardiners used slaves to transport supplies back and forth to Gardiner's Island. According to the Gardiners, slaves were easier to pass through British blockades since it was "obvious" that they were "owned." During this period Sag Harbor rose to

972-497: The Montaukett tribe, Poggatacut sought to ally with the settlers and Gardiner. By 1648 he was Sachem of Shelter Island and travelled from his residence on Sachem’s Neck to visit with the other tribes. It was on one of these visits that he died in 1651. His funeral train bore his body back to Montauk and stopped at Buc-Usk-Kil , a place on the road from Sag Harbor to East Hampton . Indian lore has that where his head rested there

1026-469: The United States after the trial. He worked as a valet for President John Tyler . He was killed aboard USS Princeton along with David Gardiner and two Cabinet officers, when one of the cannons exploded during a demonstration. In 1845 African-American sailor Pyrrhus Concer of Sag Harbor was aboard the Manhattan, a ship captained by Mercator Cooper , which picked up shipwrecked Japanese sailors in

1080-763: The associated Star Island Casino, as well as the Montauk Downs golf club. Fisher lost his fortune in the Stock Market Crash of 1929 . The land was sold back to the military in World War II . During World War II, the Army developed its land for Army, Navy and Air Force bases. Poggatacut (sachem) Son of Mongotucksee Longknife, Sachem of Montaukett (1550-1595) and Quashawan, of the Mohawk and Montauk Tribes (1556-1600), his 27 siblings constituted

1134-905: The cemetery. In 1998 and 1999 as talk surfaced that Hillary Clinton was considering a Senate run from New York, they began summering in East Hampton, where they stayed at the Georgica Pond home of Steven Spielberg . Clinton gave a Saturday radio chat from the Amagansett fire station. In June 2008, at the conclusion of Hillary Clinton's Presidential bid, she stayed at the Wiborg Beach home of Thomas H. Lee in East Hampton Village. East Hampton has played an important role in African-American history. After

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1188-493: The courts to declare the evictions illegal, but the court ruled in favor of the evictions. Since the 1990s, the Montaukett have pressed for formal recognition as a tribe. The Shinnecock Indian Nation , many of whom had continued to occupy a portion of land on the South Shore and claimed it as their reservation, received federal recognition in 2010 as a tribe and also have state recognition. Historically both groups were part of

1242-449: The early "cottages" was Tick Hall , later owned in the late 20th century by TV figure Dick Cavett . It burned in 1993, but Cavett had it restored. He had the process filmed for a television documentary. Corbin had industrial ambitions associated with extending the train to Montauk. He thought a new port city would develop around the train station on Fort Pond Bay, and that oceangoing ships from Europe would dock there. Passengers could take

1296-517: The estate was released in 2006.) Jacqueline's aunt and uncle, Winifred Lee and Franklin d'Olier , continued to own the Lily Pond Lane home of her maternal grandparents until 2002. The Bouvier family cemetery plot is at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery on Cedar Street. Jackie's father, maternal grandmother, paternal grandparents, and paternal great-grandparents, as well as various relatives, including Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, are buried in

1350-644: The eviction of the Montaukket Native Americans there. Benson brought in architect Stanford White to design six "cottages", mansions near Ditch Plains in Montauk. They formed the Montauk Association to govern their exclusive neighborhood. With new access to the village of East Hampton from New York, wealthy families ventured east from Southampton and built mansions in East Hampton. The Maidstone Golf Club opened in 1891. Among

1404-418: The far South, where he broke through the ice shelf to become the first person to touch East Antarctica . The Town of East Hampton is still highly influenced by maritime businesses, including tourism. It attracts large summer crowds of residents and tourists. Montauk is New York state's largest fishing port. The Town is famed for its commercial sports fishing, made particularly famous by Frank Mundus . One of

1458-514: The first English settlers in East Hampton were John Hand, Thomas Talmage, Daniel Howe, Thomas Thomson, John Mulford, William Hedges, Ralph Dayton, Thomas Chatfield and Thomas Osborn. The Mulford Farmhouse , on James Lane, is the best-preserved 17th-century English colonial house in East Hampton. The barn dates to 1721, and the complex is operated as a living museum . It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The house

1512-413: The grand sachem Poggaticut , sold an island to English colonist Lion Gardiner for "a large black dog, some powder and shot, and a few Dutch blankets." The next trade involved the land extending from present-day Southampton to the foot of the bluffs, at what is now Hither Hills State Park , for 24 hatchets , 24 coats, 20 looking glasses and 100 muxes . In 1660, Chief Wyandanch's widow signed away

1566-567: The incorporated village of Sag Harbor . East Hampton is located on a peninsula , bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean , to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay , Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay . To the west is western Long Island, reaching to the East River and New York City. The Town has eight state parks, most located at the water's edge. The town consists of 70 square miles (180 km ) and stretches nearly 25 miles (40 km), from Wainscott in

1620-590: The island as a wholly contained colony, independent of both New York and Connecticut. It kept that status until after the American Revolution, when it came under New York State and the Town of East Hampton authority. On June 12, 1640, nine Puritan families from Lynn, Massachusetts landed at what is now known as Conscience Point, in Southampton; some later migrated to present-day East Hampton. Among

1674-462: The land filed for reimbursement from the colony for the rum with which they had plied the tribe during negotiations. Gradually, however, colonists stopped the Montaukett using the land by preventing them from hunting and fishing. They were said to interfere with the crops on their farms, in a conflict similar to the later farmer-rancher arguments of the Old West. Many of the Montaukett died during

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1728-405: The larger Pequot people. Montaukett artifacts and sweat lodges are visible from trails at Theodore Roosevelt County Park . The park was formerly called Montauk County Park. East Hampton was the first English settlement in the state of New York. In 1639 Lion Gardiner purchased land, what became known as Gardiner's Island , from the Montaukett people. In 1648 a royal British charter recognized

1782-538: The largest buildings in the town is the Promised Land fish meal factory at Napeague. First Ladies Julia Gardiner Tyler and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis spent their childhoods there. Theodore Roosevelt was briefly quarantined in Montauk, at Camp Wyckoff, after returning from the Spanish–American War. Bill and Hillary Clinton spent week-long summer vacations in 1998 and 1999. Julia Gardiner

1836-410: The names of their geographic locations but did not constitute distinct peoples. In the late-17th century Chief Wyandanch of the Montaukett negotiated with English colonists for the land in the East Hampton area. The differing concepts held by the Montaukett and English about land and its use contributed to the Montaukett losing most of their lands over the ensuing centuries. Wyandanch's elder brother,

1890-532: The north. He bought the former Benson property for $ 2.5 million (it was sold as surplus government property following the end of World War I ). He built the six-story Montauk Improvement Building in downtown Montauk (which is still the town's tallest occupied structure—as subsequent zoning has forbidden highrise structures), the Montauk Manor (which was a luxury hotel), dredged Lake Montauk and opened it to Block Island Sound to support his Montauk Yacht Club and

1944-413: The release of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens , which explored the lives of her aunt, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale , and cousin, Edith Bouvier Beale . They were revealed to be living in poverty in a mansion of that name. Jacqueline and her husband Aristotle Onassis donated money to improve the lives of her relatives. (The documentary was adapted as a Broadway musical of the same name. A documentary on

1998-401: The rest of the land from present-day Hither Hills to the tip of Montauk Point for 100 pounds, to be paid in 10 equal installments of " Indian corn or good wampum at six to a penny". The sales provided that the Montaukett were permitted to stay on the land, to hunt and fish at will, and to harvest the tails and fins of whales that beached on the East Hampton shores. Town officials who bought

2052-412: The spring of that year, the couple relocated to the region referred to as Northwest or Alewife Brook Neck, located approximately six miles north of East Hampton Village. This Northwest "Ghost town" settlement during the mid 1800s saw development due to Northwest Harbor, later it was deemed too shallow for deep draft ships and the harbor moved to Sag Harbor , leading to the settlements demise. East Hampton

2106-399: The time of European contact, East Hampton was home to the Pequot people , part of the culture that also occupied territory on the northern side of Long Island Sound, in what is now Connecticut of southern New England. They belong to the large Algonquian -speaking language family. Bands on Long Island were identified by their geographic locations. The historical people known to the colonists as

2160-681: The town due to the smallpox plague that ravished the Montauketts. Grand sachem Wyandanch had united 13 tribes and moved the tribe off the Indian fields to gain the safety that being closer to the whites entailed. By the end of the 1800's barely 10-15 families were left on the east end. In 2001 East Hampton trustees created the Buckskill Nature Preserve, consisting of 140 acres belonging to the town and 170 acres of Suffolk county owned pine barrens. The town found preservation of

2214-582: The town of East-Hampton". Sons of Rev. Peter Hobart, founding minister of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts , Josiah Hobart and his brother Joshua both migrated to Long Island with their families. Josiah Hobart settled in East Hampton, where he served as High Sheriff of Suffolk County. His brother Joshua, a minister, went to Southold , where he served the town for 45 years. Isaac Van Scoy from Amagansett wed Mercy Edwards in February 1757, and during

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2268-596: The train into New York City–thus saving a day in transit. The grand plans for Montauk did not pan out. The land was sold to the United States Army. Theodore Roosevelt made a much publicized visit to Camp Wyckoff there at the end of the Spanish–American War . In 1926, Carl G. Fisher intended to revive the dream of an urban Montauk, with plans to develop it as a destination, the Miami Beach of

2322-726: The war and the capital of Virginia. Her father and one of her sons are buried in the South End Burial Ground in East Hampton. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born at Southampton Hospital on July 28, 1929. She would have been born in New York City but she was six weeks late. Her parents, Janet Norton Lee and John Vernou Bouvier III , known as "Black Jack," were staying at Lasata , the East Hampton home of her paternal grandfather, Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr. Her parents had been married at St. Philomena's Catholic Church in East Hampton on July 7, 1928. The reception

2376-428: The west to Montauk Point in the east. It is approximately six miles (10 km) wide at its widest point and less than one mile at its narrowest. The town has jurisdiction over Gardiners Island , which is one of the largest privately owned islands in the United States. The town has 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline. This area had been inhabited for thousands of years by wandering tribes of indigenous peoples . At

2430-464: The whaling industry dropped off dramatically because of the rise of alternative fuel products. Among the sea captains of Sag Harbor were ancestors of politician Howard Dean , who was born in East Hampton. The most famous voyages out of Sag Harbor were those by Mercator Cooper . In 1845 he was on an American ship that picked up shipwrecked Japanese sailors in the Bonin Islands and returned them to Tokyo . In 1853 Cooper traveled with an expedition to

2484-471: The years the Montaukett intermarried with other peoples of the area, but brought up many of their descendants as Montaukett in their culture. When Arthur W. Benson brought a government auction of Montauk, New York , in which he bought nearly the entire east end of the town, he evicted the Montaukett. They relocated to Freetown , a community established by free people of color on the northern edge of East Hampton Village. The tribe made several attempts to get

2538-488: Was a shallow hole in the ground, approximately 1 1/2 feet deep, later called the Sachem's hole , which for passing Indians became a sacred place. For 200 years passing tribes would stop and remove the twigs and leaves that had fallen into the hole; until the 1950s when the roadway (E Hampton-Sag Harbor turnpike/ NY 114) was widened and the sachems hole obliterated. By 1663 East Hampton had passed laws prohibiting Indians from

2592-566: Was born on Gardiners Island and her father had a house in East Hampton village. On February 28, 1844, she and her father, David Gardiner , were part of the Presidential party aboard the USS ; Princeton when a malfunctioning cannon exploded. Her father and two Cabinet officers were killed. According to legend Julia fainted into the arms of President John Tyler (who had earlier lost his first wife). They married four months later, creating

2646-482: Was built in 1680 for Josiah Hobart, a prominent early settler, named in the first formal deed of conveyance of East Hampton. This was known as the East-Hampton Pattent or Dongan Patent . The 1686 instrument granting the Town of East Hampton to its new proprietors was signed by Thomas Dongan , then Governor of New York. The patent named Capt. Hobart one of "Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of

2700-610: Was developed originally for agriculture, the settlers soon discovered that whales frequently beached along the South shore of the town. The whales could be carved up for food and oil. Town laws were written to regulate the proper handling of such carcasses. As the demand for whale products grew, residents became more aggressive in their harvesting techniques. No longer content to settle for harvesting beached whales, they began harvesting live whales that were coming near shore. Northwest Harbor, located at Northwest Landing on Gardiner's Bay,

2754-497: Was held at the East Hampton village home of her maternal grandparents, James T. Lee and Margaret Lee, located on Lily Pond. Her family were members of the Maidstone Club . She and her younger sister, Lee Bouvier , spent their summers at the house in East Hampton until she was 10, when her parents divorced. Her connection to East Hampton received renewed national attention in the 1970s. It was covered in news reports following

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2808-537: Was later changed to "Easthampton", reflecting the geographic names of its neighbors, Southampton and Westhampton. In 1885 the name was split into two words, after the local newspaper the East Hampton Star began using the two-word name. "Maidstone" is frequently used in place names throughout the town, including the Maidstone Golf Club . Deep Hollow Ranch , established in 1658 in Montauk,

2862-504: Was the third Connecticut settlement on the East end of Long Island. East Hampton formally united with Connecticut in 1657. Long Island was formally declared to be part of New York (and also subject to English law) by Charles II of England after four British frigates captured what is today New York City , releasing East Hampton from its Connecticut governance. East Hampton was first called Maidstone, after Maidstone , Kent, England . The name

2916-562: Was the town's first harbor. The harbor turned out to be too shallow for large ships, so a larger port was developed two miles (3 km) West, at Sag Harbor. Some accounts say that it was named because of its relation to the settlement of Sagaponack, New York in the Town of Southampton. At the peak of the whaling industry, in 1847, some 60 whale ships were based in Sag Harbor, employing 800 men in related businesses. Herman Melville made numerous references to this village in his novel, Moby-Dick . The port rivaled that of New York. After 1847

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