Peconic Yard Sales
A small hamlet of the Town of Southold on the North Fork, Peconic sits along Route 25 between Cutchogue and Southold hamlet. It is one of the smallest hamlets on the fork. It was originally called Hermitage before adopting the Peconic name.
About Peconic
The Peconic name itself comes from an Algonquian word generally understood to refer to nut trees, and is shared with the surrounding bay system. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the hamlet hosted the Peconic School artist colony around painters Henry and Edith Mitchill Prellwitz. Albert Einstein was staying with friends in Peconic in the summer of 1939 when he signed the Einstein-Szilard letter to President Roosevelt urging research into nuclear fission. Today Peconic sits in the heart of North Fork wine country, with vineyards and farm stands on both sides of Route 25, and the older homes along Peconic Lane and Indian Neck Lane produce most of the hamlet's estate sales.