Editing Sagaponack, New York (section)

== History ==
The area was first settled around 1653.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sagaponack Village » History|url=https://sagaponackvillage.org/history/|access-date=August 7, 2021|language=en}}</ref> The village was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] on September 2, 2005, in the wake of the failed attempt by [[Dunehampton, New York]] to incorporate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sampson|first=Christine|title=Exploring Incorporation, Wainscott Hears from Sagaponack |url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202086/exploring-incorporation-wainscott-hears-sagaponack|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=www.easthamptonstar.com|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=January 30, 2010|title=Long Island villages recently incorporated|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/long-island-villages-recently-incorporated-1.1733397|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=Newsday|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=October 28, 2015|title=Bridgehampton Residents Consider Incorporation|url=https://sagharborexpress.com/bridgehampton-residents-consider-incorporation__trashed/|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=The Sag Harbor Express|language=en-US}}</ref> Dunehampton's incorporation would have blocked Sagaponack from beaches on the [[Atlantic Ocean]].<ref name=":0" /> The villages are seeking to address various beach issues including erosion arising from [[groyne]]s at [[Georgica Pond]] in [[East Hampton (village), New York|East Hampton village]].

Prior to its incorporation, Sagaponack was a [[census-designated place]], with a population of 582 at the time of the 2000 census, and an area 70% greater than that of the current village.<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Murphy|first=Rick|date=November 29, 1998|title=Sagaponack Seeks Its Independence|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/nyregion/sagaponack-seeks-its-independence.html|access-date=August 7, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The name ''Sagaponack'' comes from the [[Shinnecock Indian Nation|Shinnecock Nation]]'s word for "land of the big ground nuts", in reference to the Ground Nut (''[[Apios americana]]'').  A common misconception is that the name referred to [[potato]]es, the predominant crop grown by farmers who first settled the area. Many of the huge estates in the village were built on former potato fields. Its first settler was Josiah Stanborough<ref>{{cite web|title=Josiah Stanborough, Sr.|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Josiah-Stanborough-Sr/6000000003230402805|access-date=February 19, 2016|publisher=Geni}}</ref> in 1656. The village was originally called Sagg.<ref name="sagaponackview.net">{{cite web|title=Sagaponack View|url=http://sagaponackview.net/sag.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907172056/http://sagaponackview.net/sag.html|archive-date=September 7, 2007|access-date=June 10, 2007}}</ref>

[[Sag Harbor, New York|Sag Harbor]], just north of Sagaponack, is believed to have derived its name from the village.<ref name="sagaponackview.net" /> West of Sagaponack is a place that the Native Americans called Mecox, now a hamlet on the west side of [[Sagaponack Lake]] in the CDP of Bridgehampton.<ref name="sagaponackview.net" />

In July 2015, according to ''[[Business Insider]]'', the 11962 ZIP Code encompassing Sagaponack was listed as the most expensive in the U.S., with a median home sale price of $5,125,000,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-zip-codes-in-america-2015-7|title = The 20 most expensive ZIP codes in America|website = [[Business Insider]]}}</ref> rising to $8,500,000 in the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web|author=Raisa Bruner|date=March 7, 2016|title=The 25 most expensive ZIP codes in America|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-us-zip-codes-2016-3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308105307/http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-us-zip-codes-2016-3|archive-date=March 8, 2016|access-date=March 9, 2016|website=Business Insider}}</ref>

The village was home to many writers and literary business persons beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, appreciated for its quiet and cheap community living.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/08/hamptons-sagaponack-literary-enclave|title=The Hamptons of Writers Past: When Capote, Vonnegut, and Plimpton Ruled Sagaponack|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=July 25, 2013}}</ref>