Sag Harbor on Long Island
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Sag Harbor is an
incorporated village in
Suffolk County, New York , United States, in the
towns of
Southampton and
East Hampton on eastern
Long Island . The village developed as a working port on
Gardiners Bay . The population was 2,772 at the 2020 census.
The entire business district is listed as the historic Sag Harbor Village District on the National Register of Historic Places . A major whaling and shipping port in the 19th century, by the end of this period and in the 20th century, it became a destination for wealthy people who summered there.Long Island Rail Road built a Sag Harbor Branch to the village. It began to carry visitors and summer residents attracted to the harbor and the light of eastern Long Island. Given changes in passenger traffic and railroad operations, the former station is now operated as a gardening store.
Sitting on the dock of the bay © flickr.com - Tomás Fano/cc-by-sa-2.0
Sag Harbor is about three-fifths in Southampton and two-fifths in East Hampton (the Town boundary being Division Street). Its landmarks include structures associated with whaling and its early days when it was designated as the first port of entry to the new United States. It had the first United States custom house erected on Long Island.
Sag Harbor was the residence of writer
John Steinbeck from 1955 until his death in 1968. Steinbeck did some of his writings in a little house on the edge of his property, including
The Winter of Our Discontent , which was set in a fictionalized version of Sag Harbor and whose main character works at a grocery store modelled after Schiavoni’s. His view from the writing house overlooked the Upper Sag Harbor Cove. As recounted in his memoir,
Travels with Charley , Steinbeck started an 11-week trip with his dog, Charley, from Sag Harbor across the United States. Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat is a writer’s residency program at John Steinbeck’s home in Sag Harbor. It is run by the
Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. Every fellow and writer-in-residence interacts with the community during their time at the residency, through readings from novels, film screenings and discussions, or read-throughs of plays.
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