Sag Harbor
| Sag Harbor, New York | |
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| Village of Sag Harbor | |
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| Coordinates: 41°0′N 72°18′W / 41.000°N 72.300°WCoordinates: 41°0′N 72°18′W / 41.000°N 72.300°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Suffolk |
| Incorporated | March 26, 1846 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km2) |
| • Land | 1.8 sq mi (4.7 km2) |
| • Water | 0.5 sq mi (1.4 km2) |
| Elevation | 26 ft (8 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,169 |
| • Density | 940/sq mi (360/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 11963 |
| Area code(s) | 631 |
| FIPS code | 36-64485 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0963216 |
| Website | sagharborny |
Sag Harbor is an incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the towns of East Hampton and Southampton. The population was 2,169 at the 2010 census.
The entire business district of the whaling port and writer's colony is listed as Sag Harbor Village District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sag Harbor is about three fifths in Southampton and two fifths in East Hampton. The dividing line is Division Street which becomes Town Line Road just south of the village. Most of the defining landmarks of the village — including its Main Street, the Whalers Church, Jermain Library, Whaling Museum, the Old Burying Ground, Oakland Cemetery, Mashashimuet Park, and Otter Pond are in Southampton. However, almost all the Bay Street marina complex, including Sag Harbor Yacht Club and Breakwater Yacht Club, at the foot of Main Street, is in East Hampton, as are the village's high school, the Sag Harbor State Golf Course, and the freed slave community of Eastville.
Sag Harbor was settled sometime between 1707 and 1730. The first bill of lading using the name Sag Harbor was recorded in 1730. While some accounts say it was named for neighboring Sagaponack, which at the time was called "Sagg", Sagaponack and Sag Harbor both got their name from a tuber the Metoac Algonquins raised. One of the first crops that was sent back to England, the tuber-producing vine is now called the Apios americana. The Metoac called it sagabon. That is how the harbor and neighboring village got its name. Such namings were not unusual. Tuckahoe in Westchester County, about 80 miles (130 km) from Sag Harbor, got its name from the aboriginal term for the Peltandra virginica, the Arrow Arum.
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