Sag Harbor station

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Sag Harbor
Sag-train-station.jpg
The former Sag Harbor Station "express house"
General information
Location Sag Harbor, New York
Coordinates 41°00′07″N72°17′47″W / 41.0019°N 72.2965°W / 41.0019; -72.2965 (1909 passenger station)
Line(s) Sag Harbor Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
History
Opened1870 (1870)
ClosedMay 3, 1939 (1939-05-03) [1]
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road
Following station
Noyack Road
toward Manorville
Sag Harbor Branch Terminus

Sag Harbor was the terminus of the abandoned Sag Harbor Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, and was one of two stations within the village of Sag Harbor, New York. It opened in 1870 with the arrival of the LIRR into Sag Harbor, and was the eastern terminus of the LIRR on the south fork of Long Island until 1895, when the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad built a line from Bridgehampton to Montauk, thus converting the line into a spur north of Bridgehampton. Besides the standard passenger station, it also contained a freight house, and "express building," two yards, a spur to "Long Wharf" which was owned by the LIRR affiliated Montauk Steamboat Company, a coal trestle, a turntable, and a three-story grain storage building owned by The station was rebuilt in 1909 in a manner similar to such stations as Riverhead, Bay Shore, Manhasset, and Bayside stations, among others. During World War I, it was used to transport torpedoes to Long Wharf in order to test them. It was abandoned in 1939 along with the branch. [2] [3] Today, Long Wharf is Suffolk County Road 81, and the former freight house became the Sag Harbor Garden Center's retail store [4] until February 1, 2022, when renovations began to transform to building into Kidd Squid Brewing Company's flagship tasting room, which opened in July 2022 and continues in operation today. [5]

Current use of the Sag Harbor freight house as the flagship tasting room for the Kidd Squid Brewing Company. Sag Harbor freight house.jpg
Current use of the Sag Harbor freight house as the flagship tasting room for the Kidd Squid Brewing Company.

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References

  1. "SAG HARBOR BRANCH Part 5". arrts-arrchives.com/sagh5.html. ARRT'S ARRCHIVES. Retrieved August 6, 2012. Long Island Railroad - NOTICE - Pursuant to a certificate of the Interstate Commerce Commission made March 23, 1939, in Finance Docket No. 12101 -- Long Island Railroad Company Abandonment -- all service on Sag Harbor Branch, between Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor will be discontinued on and after May 3, 1939.
  2. Sag Harbor Branch (Unofficial LIRR History web site) [Usurped!]
  3. Sag Harbor Branch; Part Four (Arrt's Arrchives)
  4. "Home - Sag Harbor Garden Center" . Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  5. "Newly-opened Kidd Squid Brewing Company Brings Liquid Treasures to Sag Harbor" . Retrieved March 30, 2023.