East Hampton

East Hampton

      town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the southern shore of Long Island, 100 miles (161 km) east of New York City, and includes East Hampton village and Gardiners Island. Settled in 1648 by English yeomen from Kent and first called Maidstone, the town prospered as a whaling and fishing centre. Several colonial homes have survived. Lyman Beecher (Beecher, Lyman), father of the orator and preacher Henry Ward Beecher (Beecher, Henry Ward) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Stowe, Harriet Beecher) (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), was pastor (1799–1810) of the town's Presbyterian church. East Hampton village is now a fashionable summer resort. Historic buildings include the boyhood home (a colonial saltbox [c. 1680] with an old windmill [1804], now a museum) of John Howard Payne (Payne, John Howard) (1791–1852), who wrote “Home, Sweet Home”; Hook Mill, a windmill built in 1806; and Clinton Academy (1784), the first academy chartered by the state of New York. Inc. 1920. Area 73 square miles (190 square km). Pop. (1990) 16,132; (2000) 19,719.

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