Wainscott, New York 11975
Wainscott is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP population was 650. The CDP was created for the 2000 census.
The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.
The Wainscott School, founded in 1730, was the last public one-room schoolhouse operating in New York until an annex was built in 2008.
Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Wainscott has some of the most expensive property in the world. On its west is the village of Sagaponack, and on the east is the village of East Hampton. Other communities that border Wainscott are the CDPs of East Hampton North and Northwest Harbor to the northeast, the village of Sag Harbor to the north, and the CDPs of Noyack and Bridgehampton to the west (north of Sagaponack).
The east side of Wainscott faces Georgica Pond. The exclusive Georgica Association has a 100-acre (0.40 km2) subdivision on the west side of the pond. The Association's most famous house Kilkare built in 1880. It was owned by attorney Michael J. Kennedy who hosted Donald Trump and Ivana Trump visits for seven years until representing Ivana in her divorce from Trump. It was the beach house featured in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The PBS children's show It's a Big Big World is taped in the industrial park at the East Hampton Airport which is in Wainscott.
The Wainscott railroad station on the Montauk Branch closed in the 1930s.
In 2020 residents started a petition to incorporate the community. A driving force of the petition was to fight a proposal for the preferred location for the 138-kilovolt electricity transmission line from the South Fork Wind Farm to come ashore in the community at Beach Lane en route to an electrical substation in East Hampton.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.2 square miles (18.7 km2), of which 6.7 square miles (17.4 km2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km2), or 6.87%, is water.
Wainscott has a different landscape than East Hampton or Amagansett. The town is flat: houses border on potato or corn fields that then border on the dune and the ocean. Main Street used to have a general store and a post office. The post office eventually moved to a new building on Montauk Highway and the old post office became a private residence. Before 1935, Main Street was lined with sycamores, but the hurricane took them all down. The day after the hurricane it was posted that free firewood could be had on Main Street, if you were willing to chop it.
The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.
The Wainscott School, founded in 1730, was the last public one-room schoolhouse operating in New York until an annex was built in 2008.
Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Wainscott has some of the most expensive property in the world. On its west is the village of Sagaponack, and on the east is the village of East Hampton. Other communities that border Wainscott are the CDPs of East Hampton North and Northwest Harbor to the northeast, the village of Sag Harbor to the north, and the CDPs of Noyack and Bridgehampton to the west (north of Sagaponack).
The east side of Wainscott faces Georgica Pond. The exclusive Georgica Association has a 100-acre (0.40 km2) subdivision on the west side of the pond. The Association's most famous house Kilkare built in 1880. It was owned by attorney Michael J. Kennedy who hosted Donald Trump and Ivana Trump visits for seven years until representing Ivana in her divorce from Trump. It was the beach house featured in the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The PBS children's show It's a Big Big World is taped in the industrial park at the East Hampton Airport which is in Wainscott.
The Wainscott railroad station on the Montauk Branch closed in the 1930s.
In 2020 residents started a petition to incorporate the community. A driving force of the petition was to fight a proposal for the preferred location for the 138-kilovolt electricity transmission line from the South Fork Wind Farm to come ashore in the community at Beach Lane en route to an electrical substation in East Hampton.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.2 square miles (18.7 km2), of which 6.7 square miles (17.4 km2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km2), or 6.87%, is water.
Wainscott has a different landscape than East Hampton or Amagansett. The town is flat: houses border on potato or corn fields that then border on the dune and the ocean. Main Street used to have a general store and a post office. The post office eventually moved to a new building on Montauk Highway and the old post office became a private residence. Before 1935, Main Street was lined with sycamores, but the hurricane took them all down. The day after the hurricane it was posted that free firewood could be had on Main Street, if you were willing to chop it.
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