Fire Place Landing | East Hampton Town, NY

If you follow Fireplace Road in Springs to its end at Gardiner’s Bay, you’ve reached Fireplace. Fires were built there centuries ago to signal across the water to the inhabitants of Gardiner’s Island, when people or goods were ready to be transported.

The first fireplace stood at Old Fireplace Road (now Gerard Drive). The landing spot was changed for convenience when the King, Parsons, and Miller families established homesteads farther up the beach.

As of the mid-1980s, a warehouse built there by John Lion Gardiner in about 1791 was still standing, though it had been converted to a summer cottage.

(Source: What’s In A Name?: Fireplace | The East Hampton Star)