Editing Cherry Grove, New York (section)

===19th century===
Cherry Grove dates its modern history to the 1868 purchase by Archer and Elizabeth Perkinson. They bought the land between Lone Hill (now Fire Island Pines) and the Cherry Grove Hotel from the ocean to the bay for 25 cents per acre and named the area for the [[Prunus serotina|black-cherry]] trees in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fireislandqnews.com/sections/inside_pages/history_jeanne_skinner.html|title=Cherry Grove: Before and After the Great Hurricane of 1938|last=Skinner|first=Jeanne G.|date=July 10, 1918|website=Fire Island News|publisher=Fireislandqnews.com|access-date=December 4, 2013|archive-date=July 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705152632/https://www.youtube.com/embed/WWKhID5Nz-g?rel=0&autoplay=1|url-status=live}}</ref> The Perkinsons opened a hotel in 1880. According to local legend [[Oscar Wilde]] stayed at the Perkinson Hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fairharbor.com/pl_cg_hist.htm |title="History Cherry Grove", Fairharbor.com. Retrieved November 1, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215085509/http://www.fairharbor.com/pl_cg_hist.htm |archive-date=February 15, 2012 }}</ref>