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| Brief History of Fair Harbor, Fire Island |
| Lot 6 as Fair Harbor was known in 1878 and without apparent owners was
originally purchased by Davis Sammis. In 1923 Captain Selah Clock and
George Weeks purchased the property from the Sammis estate and founded
Fair Harbor.
The original houses were modest dwellings targeted to the working man from Bay Shore. One such house you can still see at 15 Holly which is believed to have been built in that era. The builders went bankrupt in the 1930's and the 1938 hurricane wiped out 70 out of 78. In the 1950's people found confidence and wealth to start building on the barrier beach again. The 60's saw a building boom (about 300 total houses). Today Fair Harbor has about 425 buildings. The makeup of the community has changed over the decades. Early on it was families, the 80's saw large numbers of young New York professionals in group houses. Towards the end of the 90's that mix has swung back to families as previous "groupers" founded families and bought houses. An unverified number I heard recently (1999) was about 15% group houses. |
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