Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Wegwagonock

Wegwagonock was once a large settlement in what is now the northern shore of Sag Harbor town. In around 1846, the ground containing burials and evidence of a Native village site were destroyed and used as stability material for the ship and oil yards. In the mid-nineteenth century, the ancestral burials and archaeological remains of the Wegwagonock settlement in Sag Harbor were tragically destroyed to provide stability material for booming commercial ship and oil yards. Remembering the physical erasure of this thriving coastal village underscores the devastating cultural costs of rapid industrial development, highlighting the urgent need to protect remaining Indigenous heritage sites today. 1896, 1911. The location of Wegwagonock was reconstructed through East Hampton land-purchase records from the 1700s and placed in the Sag Harbor area. Older descriptions connected the name with a...