HISTORIC PUBLIC STRUCTURES 

TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

A SELECTION / 1640 – 1865

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Conscience Point, North Sea, June 12, 1640.

Conscience Point is the approximate landing place of the first English colonists who arrived here in June of 1640. The Shinnecock Indians lived around the harbor for many centuries before the arrival of the English who subsequently settled in the vicinity of the present Southampton Village. Both the early settlers and the Native Americans benefited from the productivity of the marsh-bordered land and harbor.

Conscience Point is owned by the Southampton History Museum. A trail leads to a commemorative monument placed here in 1910. In 2000, the Museum and the Town of Southampton completed a project to restore this location to a more natural condition and to conserve its resources for the future. — Southampton History Museum

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For additional views & detailed captions of the following historic structures,

please visit links at end of portfolio.

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The Old Mill, Water Mill / Water Mill Museum 

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Halsey House, 1683, Southampton / Southampton History Museum

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Pelletreau Silver Shop, 1686, Southampton / Southampton History Museum

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Windmill, Southampton  

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Foster-Meeker House, 1735, Westhampton Beach. / Westhampton Beach Historical Society

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Barn, 1740, Sagaponack / Madoo Conservancy 

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Battle of Sag Harbor, May 23, 1777, Sage Street 

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E.C. Bennett, c. 1780, Practical Horse Shoers / Southampton History Museum

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Custom House, c. 1790, Sag Harbor / Preservation Long Island

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Prosper King House, 1790 / Hampton Bays Historical Society

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The Annie Cooper Boyd House, c. 1796 / Sag Harbor Historical Society 

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Old Noyac School House. Original circa 1796. 

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Corwith Windmill, 1800 / North Haven — 1813 / Water Mill 

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Canoe Place Chapel, ca. 1820, Hampton Bays / Hampton Bays Historical Society 

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Beebee Windmill, 1820, Sag Harbor, relocated to Bridgehampton, 1915 / Bridgehampton Museum

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Old Schoolhouse, 1822, Quogue / Quogue Historical Society

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Sayre Barn, 1825 / Southampton History Museum 

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Bridgehampton United Methodist Church, 1833  

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Fireman’s Museum, c. 1833, Sag Harbor  

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St. David A.M.E. Zion Church, 1839, Sag Harbor

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Nathan Rogers House, 1824 – 1840, Bridgehampton / Bridgehampton Museum

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Josiah Tuthill House, 1840, Remsenburg, moved to Westhampton Beach /

Westhampton Beach Historical Society

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“Cooper Hall” (Mercator Cooper House), 1840s, Southampton   

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William Corwith House, ca. 1840, Bridgehampton / Bridgehampton Museum  

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Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, 1842 / Bridgehampton

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Hildreth’s Store, 1842 / Southampton History Museum 

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First Presbyterian Church, 1843, Southampton

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Whalers’ Church, c. 1843, Sag Harbor.

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Rogers Mansion, 1750 to 1926, Southampton / Southampton History Museum  

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Benjamin Huntting House, c. 1845. / Sag Harbor Whaling Museum

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Sag Harbor Municipal Building, c. 1846, Sag Harbor  

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One-Room Schoolhouse, c. 1847, North Haven  

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Lyzon Hat Shop (left), 1850, Hampton Bays & Prosper King House / Hampton Bays Historical Society 

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The Pond House, 1850 / Quogue Historical Society

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Foster – Meeker Carriage House and Privy, Circa 1850 / Westhampton Beach Historical Society  

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Blue Barn, Flanders, mid-19th century.

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Remsenburg Presbyterian Church, 1853

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Fordham Mill, 1859, Speonk  

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Remsenburg Academy, 1860s 

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 Monument Square, Southampton 

 

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Please visit the following portfolios for detailed captions & additional photographs:

Southampton, 1640 – 1776 / Settlement & Colonial Periods

Southampton, 1777 – 1865 / Early Republic & Economic Expansion

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Photographs © Jeff Heatley.

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