East Hampton Town
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 […]
Now leveled, the Molly’s Hill site is located in Springs where Fireplace Road and Gerard Drive meet; said to be named for Molly Pharaoh, Stephen Talkhouse’s mother, who lived from 1819 to 1879. Stephen Pharoah, commonly called Steve Talkhouse, was born in a wigwam on the side of a little hill where the old and […]
Barnes Hole is first mentioned in 1716 in the diary of a New London, CT resident who made frequent trips by boat to the east end of Long Island to visit relatives and do business. The Barnes name possibly came from Isaac Barnes, who was born in East Hampton in 1677. He was one […]
Built by Jeremiah Conklin and his wife Mary, daughter of Lion Gardiner, first English Settler of New York. When Jeremiah Conkling was born about February 1633, in Oldswinford, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Ananias Conkling, was 24 and his mother, Mary Launder, was 18. He married Mary Gardiner in August 1658, in Gardiners Island, […]
The East Hampton Town Board has appointed Emily Fisher as the Town’s new head of the Human Resources Department, as Personnel Assistant, effective retroactive to April 20, 2026. A dedicated public servant with deep roots in Town government, Fisher brings nearly two decades of experience to the role. Since November 2025, she has served in […]
The Town of East Hampton has once again been awarded the Government Finance Officers Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, marking the fourth consecutive year the Town has received this distinction. The Town was deemed proficient in all […]
The First House was the first of three dwellings built at Montauk. All three had a role to play in the organization and maintenance of the cattle and sheep that spent each season grazing on the fields of Montauk. First House was built in 1744 and rebuilt in 1798. The keeper who lived there had the […]
Originally known as the House at Fort Pond, Second House was built to replace a 1746 house that had most likely been destroyed during the Revolutionary War by the British, who also wrecked the other structures and decimated the livestock on Montauk to feed their troops. In 1661, East Hampton livestock owners acquired grazing rights […]
Montauk’s first Third House was built in 1747 but burned down, then was rebuilt in 1806. It has had many owners and uses in its 278 years, beginning as a home for the keepers of cattle grazing each summer on Montauk’s pastureland. Almost as remote as Montauk Point, the farmhouse was also known as a […]
During the American Revolutionary War, the British ship of the line HMS Culloden ran aground here early on January 24, 1781, while attempting to get from Block Island Sound out to the open Atlantic Ocean to escape a winter gale and snowstorm with two other British warships. As recounted in Long Island and the Sea […]
Fort Hill Cemetery, with its sweeping views of land and water, was officially dedicated 31 years ago on June 23. East Hampton Town had purchased the 30-acre property in the 1980s to preserve a sacred Montaukett burial ground and to create a cemetery for latter-day Montauk residents. The “fort” in Fort Hill is said to […]
Indian Field County Park (or Montauk County Park) is 1,063.7 acres in size, running from Montauk Highway north to Block Island Sound and is bordered on the east by Montauk Point State Park. The main acquisitions of this land were made in the period of 1973 -1975 with Third House, and its immediately adjoining land […]
There is an I in the first mention of Camp Wikiff. The first visit by a sitting President to East Hampton was when William Mckinley visited the camp. Theodore Roosevelt’s participation in the Spanish-American War and his presence at Camp Wikoff was instrumental in his road to political prominence. Camp Wikoff is one of the more famous […]
The Town Board holds three work sessions and two regular meetings each month. Work Sessions are held on the first three Tuesdays of the month at 11 a.m. Regular meetings are held on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 6:00 p.m. All meetings are conducted at East Hampton Town Hall. They are […]
In the summer of 1775, as tensions simmered between the American colonies and the British Empire, the first whispers of conflict reached the shores of Long Island. Fort Pond Bay at Montauk became a strategic point of interest for the British during the Siege of Boston. John Dayton, facing limited troops, employed a clever tactic […]