Editing Hampton Bays, New York (section)

== History ==
The hamlet was settled in 1740 as "Good Ground", which became the main hamlet of eleven in the immediate area.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Shepard|first=Richard F.|date=March 1, 1987|title=ABOUT LONG ISLAND; WHAT'S IN A NAME? HISTORY|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/nyregion/about-long-island-what-s-in-a-name-history.html|access-date=August 27, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Good Ground (Suffolk County, NY)|url=https://roadsidethoughts.com/ny/good-ground-xx-suffolk-profile.htm|access-date=August 27, 2021|website=roadsidethoughts.com|language=en-us}}</ref> The area where Main Street, also known as [[Montauk Highway]], is located today, was the approximate area of the original hamlet.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

There were ten other hamlets in the area. They were called Canoe Place, East Tiana, Newtown, Ponquogue, Rampasture, Red Creek, Squiretown, Southport, Springville, and West Tiana. Most of these hamlets were settled by one or two families and had their own school house. Many of the names from the former hamlets are still featured as local street names today.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

As a result of the growth of the surrounding hamlets and villages in the Hamptons and increased tourism from [[New York City]], the eleven hamlets, although generally called "Good Ground" collectively by the early part of the 20th century, amalgamated under the name "Hampton Bays" in 1922.<ref name=":0" /> The motive behind the name change was for the hamlet to benefit from the "Hamptons" trade that the community's neighbors were experiencing.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In the early 1970s and the 2010s, portions of Hampton Bays unsuccessfully attempted to incorporate itself as the '''Incorporated Village of Hampton Bays'''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 5, 1972 |title=Hampton Bays Is Due to Vote Soon on Incorporation as Village |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/05/archives/hampton-bays-is-due-to-vote-soon-on-incorporation-as-village.html |access-date=September 13, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rattiner |first=Dan |date=June 6, 2013 |title=It Takes a Village? Hampton Bays Hamlet, Like Others Before It, Ponders Incorporation – Dan's Papers |url=https://www.danspapers.com/2013/06/it-takes-a-village-hampton-bays-hamlet-like-others-before-it-ponders-incorporation/ |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=www.danspapers.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Erica |date=January 17, 2013 |title=Civic Eyes Forming Village of Hampton Bays |url=https://patch.com/new-york/westhampton-hamptonbays/hampton-bays-eyes-secession |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=Westhampton-Hampton Bays, NY Patch |language=en}}</ref>