Editing West Sayville, New York (section)

==Historic locations/people==
[[File:Green House; West Sayville, New York.JPG|250px|left|thumb|West Sayville's historic Greene House]]
The Greene House is located at 93 Montauk Highway. [[George Washington]] stopped at this historic house during a tour of Long Island to rest and refresh himself and his horses in 1790.

Edith Corse Evans, heir to a hide-tanning and real estate fortune with a West Sayville summer home, was a passenger on the [[RMS Titanic|''Titanic'']]. During the sinking of the ''Titanic'' on April 15, 1912, Edith Corse Evans gave up the last seat on the last lifeboat to save a mother of six children. Evans lost her life after the ocean liner sank into the Atlantic Ocean, but her efforts saved Caroline Brown from [[Acton, Massachusetts]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

The West Sayville Radio Station at Cherry Avenue was a German [[Telefunken]] wireless transmitter built in 1912 to broadcast primarily to Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Telefunken-Zeitung 3.Jahrgang Nr.14 |url=http://www.radiomuseum.org/forumdata/users/5100/TZ_3Jg_Nr14_1v1_v10.pdf |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=radiomuseum.org}}</ref> In 1915, the transmitter allegedly relayed a message from the German Embassy to "get Lucy", referring to the [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] which was sunk on May 7. Whether the signals coming from the transmitter in Sayville authorized the attack or not, they caused concern for the US government, which was raised again when it was used in the transmission of the [[Zimmermann Telegram]] by Germany to Mexico to request their assistance in the invasion of the United States during World War I. This historic transmission was sent through the West Sayville Radio Station on January 16, 1917, and President [[Woodrow Wilson]] sent a contingent of [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] to seize the wireless station in order to ensure that no further encrypted messages were sent. This was the first hostile action taken by the United States against Germany during World War I.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Telefunken/Sayville Wireless |url=http://www.sayville.com/wireless.html |website=Sayville.com}}</ref> Today the land where the transmitter was located is part of the [[Sayville National Wildlife Refuge]].