Fort Pond Bay showing the original area where Montauk was formed and where Long Island Rail Road tracks run. American feigned greater numbers on the hill about midway on the right to scare off the British in 1775.

Fort Bond Bay is a bay off Long Island Sound at Montauk, New York that was site of the first port on the end of Long Island. In geography, a bay or gulf is a collection of water that is surrounded by land on three sides. ... New York City waterways: 1. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, USA. It has an area of 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) and a population of 7. ...

The bay has a long strategic history.

The bay was first listed by name in a 1655 map published in 1680 by John Scott which makes note of a Montaukett Native-American fort on its banks. The Montaukett is an Algonquian speaking tribe native to eastern of Long Island, New York. ...

Early settlers in the area raised cattle and sheep on the bluffs above the bay. During the American Revolutionary Warduring the Siege of Boston British warships sailed into the bay in 1775. Local militia under Capt. John Dayton, feigned they had more men than they had, turning their coats inside out as they marched back and forth on top of a high hill to the south. The tactic is called Dayton's Ruse.[1] Combatants American Revolutionaries France The Netherlands Spain American Indians Great Britain Iroquois Confederacy German mercenaries Loyalists American Indians Commanders George Washington Comte de Rochambeau Nathanael Greene Bernardo de Gálvez Sir William Howe Sir Henry Clinton Lord Cornwallis Thayendanegea (more commanders) The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as... The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 - March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the active American Revolutionary War. ...

Long Island was occupied throughout the war and the bay was used by the British for their blockaide of Connecticut. In 1781 the HMS Culloden (1776) ran aground while pursuing a French frigate during a January storm. The ship, which survived the initial ground hit a rock and had to be scuttled in the bay at Culloden Point and burned with its canons thrown overboard. Its debris field and wreck site is now the only underwater park on Long Island. HMS Culloden was a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line built in Deptford in 1776. ... Photo of from parking lot at the top of the bluff in July 2006. ...

The small fishing village of Montauk was established at the southeast corner of the bay.

In 1839 the Amistad anchored in bay (also a Culloden Point) when the surviving crew had tried to convince their revolting slave captors that they had returned to Africa as they went for provisions in the village of Montauk. The ship was seized by the USS Washington (1837) in the bay. (Spanish: friendship) was a Spanish merchant ship on which a rebellion by the African slaves it was carrying broke out in 1839 when the schooner was traveling along the coast of Cuba. ... The sixth USS Washington was a revenue cutter in the United States Navy. ...

In the 1890s Austin Corbin extended the Long Island Rail Road from Bridgehampton, New York to the Montauk fishing village (the line extension was called the Fort Pond Railway). His friend Arthur Bensen purchased 10,000 acres (40 km²) of Montaukett land around the village and the LIRR began advertising that it could cut a day off of ship travel by docking in Montauk and taking the train rather than going to New York. Corbin built a steel pier into pond for the overseas ships (even as the Corps of Engineers was always cautioning against using the bay because of rocks. Austin Corbin (July 11, 1827 - June 4, 1896) consolidated the rail lines on Long Island bringing them under the profitable umbrella of the Long Island Railroad. ... The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR (often referred to as the L-I-double-R) is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ... Bridgehampton is a census-designated place located in Suffolk County, New York. ...

The dream was to never materialize and the U.S. Army bought the land for Camp Wikoff. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were to come by transport into the bay following the Spanish-American War at the camp to be quarantined over concerns about Yellow Fever. Theodore Roosevelt County Park (formerly Montauk County Park) occupies the site of Camp Wikoff just east of Montauk, New York where Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders as well as 28,000 soldiers were quarantined after returning from the Spanish-American War in 1898. ... Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... Roosevelt and the Rough Riders atop San Juan Heights, 1898 The Rough Riders was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War. ... Combatants Image:US 45 05:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)$$$@ United States Republic of Cuba First Philippine Republic Spain Commanders Nelson A. Miles William R. Shafter George Dewey Máximo Gómez Emilio Aguinaldo Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Casualties 379 U.S. dead; considerably higher although undetermined Cuban and Filipino...

The rail line along the bay and the fishing village were obliterated in the storm of the Great Hurricane of 1938. The Navy took over the area for a seaplane and dirigible base during World War II (the dock is still in use). The fishing village was moved a mile south closer to the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Hurricane of 1938 impacted Long Island and Connecticut, killing hundreds. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

In the 1960s the bluffs above the bay were used to build Leisurama homes as inexpensive second homes that had been inspired the by Kitchen Debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Kruschev. One of the more than 200 Leisurama homes at Culloden Point Leisurama was a style of prefabricated housing aimed as affordable second homes that was inspired by the 1959 Kitchen Debate between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon. ... The Kitchen Debate was an impromptu debate (through interpreters) between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, on July 24, 1959. ... NIXON GOT FUCKED RIGT UP THE ASS BY A BUG FAT BLACK MAN WITH A BIG ASS DICK. HE LOVED IT AND MOANED ALOT CAUSE OF IT. HE LOVES DICk ! President: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |- ! Political party: | Republican |} In 1952, he was elected Vice President on Dwight D. Eisenhowers ticket. ... Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв) (nih-KEE-tah khroo-SHCHYOFF) (April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union...

The bay is no longer used for boats because of flooding and the rocks. Boats now dock in the dredged Lake Montauk.

External links

• Native American History
• East Hampton Star History