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The Hamptons, highlighted (center) on the South Fork of Long Island, an island extending 118 miles (190 km) into the Atlantic Ocean eastward from Manhattan. The Hamptons, part of the East End of Long Island, consist of the towns of Southampton and East Hampton, which together compose the South Fork of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York.
Hampton is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area . [ 5 ] The town population was 938 at the 2010 census, an increase of 7.2% since the 2000 census. [ 2 ]
Hampton Bays is served by Hampton Bays Public Schools. [12] The district operates three schools. Hampton Bays Elementary School serves grades Pre-K-4, [13] and Hampton Bays Middle School, which fully opened in Fall 2008, serves grades 5-8. It is the first "green" school in New York state. [14] [15] Hampton Bays High School serves grades 9-12. [12]
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 the island as a wholly contained colony, independent of both New York and Connecticut.
The South Fork is composed of all of the Town of East Hampton and a substantial part of the Town of Southampton.The body of water to the south is the Atlantic Ocean.. The South Fork and North Fork split at Riverhead, New York where the Peconic River empties into Peconic Bay.
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Ernestine Rose, born and raised in Bridgehampton, was a librarian at the New York Public Library responsible for the purchase and incorporation of the Arthur A. Schomburg collection. Isaac Sandford, Brigadier General; Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, 1967 Triple Crown winner, born and raised in Bridgehampton
The Hamptons, Long Island AVA is an American Viticultural Area located entirely within eastern Suffolk County, New York, and includes the entire South Fork of Long Island and the townships of Southampton and East Hampton. Authored by winemaker Richard Olsen-Harbich in 1984, it was the first AVA to be approved for Long Island.