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Amagansett Library

215 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-267-3810

Amagansett Public School

320 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-267-3572

Marine Museum

301 Bluff Road, Amagansett 631-267-6544

East Hampton Chamber of Commerce

44 Gingerbread Lane, East Hampton 631-537-2900

The cemetery across from the tennis court

by Barbara Clements Barber

Editor's note: Ms. Clements Barber actually has no knowledge about this paper, she is an artist who now lives in Arizona. We have taken the liberty of using her fine prose that accompanies one of her paintings of this cemetery. We hope she doesn't mind. It's the most that we have been able to find online about it. We will undertake a more intensive investigation in the future as the cemetery occupies a prominent place in Amagansett, as it is on the way to the beach and across the firehouse and contains a lot of local history.

The first deed referring to Amagansett is dated 1683. By means of that document the Reverend Thomas James sold to Abraham Schlellinger 52 acres of woods by a highway known as Amagansett commonly called Amagansett Way.

The name Schlellinger is commonly found on many of the tombstones in the ancient burial ground. The earliest families who settled in Amagansett were the Bakers, the Conklings and the Mulfords. Alice Baker, who died on February 4th 1708 at age 88, was the wife of Thomas Baker, the first to settle the village.

The great painter, Thomas Moran, painted the beauty of the East End in 1850. When the settlers came to the region the Native Americans greeted them without hostility. The warm reception was largely the result of the friendship between Lion Gardiner and the sachem Wyandanch. Gardiner went so far as to offer himself as a hostage to obtain the release of Wyandanch's daughter when she was abducted by the Pequots. Amagansett derives its name from the Montaukett name 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 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.

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

Community Directory

Places of Worship

First Presbyterian Church of Amagansett

350 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-267-6404

First United Methodist Church of East Hampton

35 Pantigo Road, East Hampton 631-324-4258

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church

St. Peter’s Chapel

465 Old Stone Highway, East Hampton 631-329-0990

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Chapel

102 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-267-3080

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons

44 Woods Lane, East Hampton 631-329-6654

Pizza

Fini Pizza Amagansett

Golf

South Fork Country Club

730 Old Stone Highway, Amagansett (631) 267-3575

East Hampton Golf Club

281 Abrahams Path, East Hampton (631) 324-7007

Sag Harbor Golf Course

Barcelona Neck Road, East Hampton (631) 725-2503

Tennis

East Hampton High School

2 Long Lane, East Hampton

East Hampton Town Offices

59 Pantigo Road, East Hampton 631-324-4141

Southampton Hospital

240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton 631-726-8200

486 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-267-6351

St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church

286 Montauk Highway, Amagansett 631-324-0134

237 Main Street, Amagansett 631-394-5654

Il Buco Al Mare

231 Main Street Amagansett 631-557-3100

Terry King Rec Center

385 Abrahams Path, East Hampton

Herrick Park

67 Newtown Lane, East Hampton

SPORTIME Amagansett

320 Abrahams Path, Amagansett (631) 267-3460