Editing Amagansett, New York (section)

==History==
[[File:New York - Amagansett through Blue Point - NARA - 68145393 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Amagansett in 1931]]
[[Image:Amagansett-indian-wells.jpg|thumb|left|Marker celebrating the Amagansett's "place of good water" near Indian Wells beach]]
Amagansett derives its name from the [[Montaukett]] for "place of good water"—from a water source near what today is Indian Wells beach.

Unlike the rest of [[the Hamptons]], Amagansett was initially settled by the Baker, Conklin, and Barnes families, descendants of English settlers, and the [[Dutch people|Dutch]] brothers Abraham and Jacob Schellinger, the sons of a [[New Amsterdam]] merchant who moved to East Hampton between 1680 and 1690 after the English took over New Amsterdam.<ref>[http://hamptonstravelguide.com/Communities/Amagansett.shtml Amagansett (Hamptons Travel Guide)]</ref>

During [[Operation Pastorius]], a failed Nazi attack on the United States in June 1942, during [[World War II]], a submarine dropped off four German spies on Atlantic Avenue beach in Amagansett, where they made their way to the village's [[Amagansett (LIRR station)|Long Island Rail Road station]] and boarded a train for New York. A Coast Guardsman assigned to watch the beach noticed the suspicious strangers on the beach and notified the police and the [[FBI]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-16 |title=Coast Guardsmen History - Amagansett Life-Saving Station |url=https://www.amagansettlss.org/about/ |access-date=2022-10-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2007, the original [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] station, which had been moved to a private residence in 1966 to protect it from demolition, was moved back near its original location at Atlantic Avenue beach. The Coast Guard barracks are now part of the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, which includes exhibits from the town's maritime history, including whaling relics and a cannon from the [[American Revolution]] ship [[HMS Culloden (1776)|HMS ''Culloden'']], which ran aground at [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]].
[[File:GENERAL_VIEW._(Date_and_photographer_unknown)_-_Ananias_Conklin_House,_Main_Street,_Amagansett,_Suffolk_County,_NY_HABS_NY,52-AMGA,1-1.tif|alt=old photo of house with two children in the foreground to the right|left|thumb|Ananias Conklin House on Main Street]]
In 1998 President [[Bill Clinton]], who was vacationing in East Hampton, gave a Saturday radio address from the Amagansett Fire House.

Amagansett includes a section of Further Lane, which is a block from the ocean, and has one of East Hampton's biggest collections of mansions. In 2007, one of the estates sold for $107 million, the highest price for a private residential property.

As part of the settlement, several 18th- and 19th-century buildings that had been moved to the estate to prevent demolition were moved elsewhere in town—including five that were moved to form a campus for the East Hampton town government.

''Amagansett'', a pictorial history of the hamlet, was published in 1997 by Carleton Kelsey, longtime director of the Amagansett Free Library and former town clerk, and Lucinda Mayo, descendant of one of Amagansett's 17th-century founders.<ref name=":0">http://www.easthampton.com/other/books-history.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120063847/http://easthampton.com/other/books-history.html |date=2010-11-20 }} Accessed 2010-12-17</ref>

Many houses and other buildings from the 19th and even 18th century still stand in Amagansett, Montauk, the Hamptons, and other Long Island communities.