Hampton Bays Yard Sales
Originally settled in 1740 as Good Ground, this hamlet of the Town of Southampton was renamed Hampton Bays in 1922 by consolidating eleven smaller hamlets, including Canoe Place, Ponquogue, and Red Creek. It is one of the larger year-round communities on the East End.
About Hampton Bays
Hampton Bays is wrapped by water on multiple sides: Peconic Bay to the north and Shinnecock and Tiana bays to the south. The Shinnecock Canal, completed in 1892, cuts through the hamlet and connects the Peconic and Shinnecock bay systems, and the Shinnecock Inlet, opened by the 1938 hurricane, gives the canal access to the Atlantic. The hamlet operates the second-busiest commercial fishing port in New York State after Montauk, landing roughly 4.7 million pounds of seafood a year. The mix of year-round households, working fishermen, and tradespeople gives Hampton Bays a yard-sale calendar that runs more evenly across the year than the seasonal communities further east.