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  • 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…

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