Sag Harbor

Adirondacks Adirondack Railroad Albion Brockport Buffalo Canastota Chautauqua Chittenango Cooperstown Corning Covered Bridges Crown Point Elmira Erie Canal Fillmore House Finger Lakes Wine Fort Stanwix Glimmerglass Opera Fort Niagara Hammondsport Herkimer Herkimer Home Hudson River Long Island Mayville Montour Falls New York City Niagara Falls Raquette Lake Roycroft Campus Rome Syracuse Ticonderoga Watkins Glen

Sag Harbor

Long Island, New York

 

Customs House

 

 

horizontal rule

 

Whaling Museum
(designed in 1845 by Minard Lefeuer as a home for
 wealthy whaling ship owner, Benjamin Huntting)

(note the roof crenellations of harpoons and blubber  spades)

 

 

Sag Harbor, New York is one of the 70 American ports which sent out whalers. The peak year for American whaling activity was 1846, when 736 vessels and 70,000 people were engaged in the industry. In terms of production, however, sperm oil peaked in 1843, at 19,909,100 liters (5,260,000 gallons), whale oil at 43,821,540 liters (11,593,000 gallons) in 1845, and whalebone at 2,560,356 kg (5,652,000 lb) in 1853.

Text from Microsoft Encarta
 

Captain's residence

horizontal rule

 

 

Old Whaler's church
(built by shipwrights)

horizontal rule

 

 

Tiffany windows at Christ Episcopal church

 

a residence

horizontal rule

Adirondacks Adirondack Railroad Albion Brockport Buffalo Canastota Chautauqua Chittenango Cooperstown Corning Covered Bridges Crown Point Elmira Erie Canal Fillmore House Finger Lakes Wine Fort Stanwix Glimmerglass Opera Fort Niagara Hammondsport Herkimer Herkimer Home Hudson River Long Island Mayville Montour Falls New York City Niagara Falls Raquette Lake Roycroft Campus Rome Syracuse Ticonderoga Watkins Glen

Return to New York State page

Return to United States page

World Heritage Mosaics Roman World Africa Antarctica Asia Atlantic Islands Australia Caribbean Central America Europe Indian Ocean Middle East North America Pacific Islands South America The Traveler Recent Adventures Adventure Travel

 

People and Places

horizontal rule