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HISTORIC SITES

BERWIND MEMORIAL GREEN (BEEBE WINDMILL):

Ocean Road & Hildreth Road, Bridgehampton

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One of only 11 remaining windmills, built in 1820 for Lester Beebe, the smock windmill has a stone foundation and a four-story tower. A national state and local landmark bequeathed to the Town as a memorial to John Berwind, the grounds and mill are maintained by the Parks & Recreation Department as a historic site.

TOWN-OWNED HISTORIC BURIAL GROUNDS: Under State Law, Southampton Town maintains abandoned cemeteries and colonial period burial grounds as Memorial Parks including: Westhampton Burying Ground (Quiogue): Pleasure Woods Cemetery (Flanders); East Quogue Burying Ground; Indian Preacher Gravesite, Hubbard Cemetery and Fournier Cemetery in Hampton Bays; Old Noyac Burial Ground, North Sea Burial Ground, Old Southampton Burying Ground and North End Graveyard in the Village of Southampton.

Additional Historic Sites owned by Southampton Town include: Nathaniel Rogers House (Bridgehampton), Canoe Place Chapel (Hampton Bays), Prosper King House (Hampton Bays), Ellis Squires Sr. House (Hampton Bays), Lyzon Hat Shop (Hampton Bays), Tiana Life Saving Saving Station (Hampton Bays), Blue Barn (Flanders), Tupper Boathouse (North Sea), Noyac Schoolhouse (Noyac), the White Collins Mulvihill House (Sag Habor) and the Remsenburg Academy (Remsenburg-Speonk).

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