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Sayville was founded by John Edward (b. 1738, East Hampton, New York). He built his home, the first in Sayville, in 1761. John Edwards was a relative of Ann Edwards who was convicted of making false accusations of witchcraft. Another man, John Greene, settled what's now known as West Sayville in 1767.
The community had no formal name until 1836 when residents gathered to choose a formal name. Until that time, Sayville was known informally as "over south." According to legend, Edwardsville and Greensville tied in a vote, and one resident suggested "Seaville." Supposedly, a clerk misspelled the name "Sayville." Another legend is that Sayville is a contraction of " Salem Village" which is where the founding family came from in Massachusetts.
Sayville became important for its timber, oysters, and beginning in 1868 when the South Side Rail Road arrived, tourism. Sayville is ideally positioned as a vacation community for New Yorkers.
In 19121912 is a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. January 17 British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the a GermanThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east TelefunkenTelefunken is a German radio- and television company, founded in 1903. Originally it was a joint venture of AEG and Siemens, until Siemens left in 1941. In 1967 it was merged with AEG, which was then renamed to AEG-Telefunken. When AEG was bought by Daiml wireless transmitter was built in Sayville to broadcast to Germany. In 1915Events January 12 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of Congress. January 12 United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote. January 13 An earthquake (6. 8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Ital, the transmitter allegedly relied a message from the German Embassy to "get Lucy" referring to the RMS LusitaniaRMS Lusitania was an ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Lines that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7 1915 on her 202nd crossing of the Atlantic in an incident that played a role in the USA's entry into World War I. Specifications Gros which was sunk on May 15May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). There are 230 days remaining. Events 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod. 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected disco. Whether the signals coming from the transmitter in Sayville authorized the attack or not, they caused concern for the US government which dispatched MarinesThe United States Marine Corps USMC is the second-smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. The United States Coast Guard is the smallest. The Marine Corps is nonetheless la to ensure encrypted messages were not sent. The station was seized by the government outright after war was declared in 1917Events January 2 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 22 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 25 Anti-. President Woodrow Wilson sent a contingent of Marines to take the wireless station, thus the first hostile action taken by the United States against Germany during World War I was in Sayville.
From 1919 to May 1932 Sayville was home to Father Divine, a controversial African American religious leader who claimed to be God. His religious movement, which came to be called the International Peace Mission movement, managed a commune-like house on 72 Baker Street which was the first black-owned residence in Sayville. At that time Sayville was predominantly a seasonal vacation community, and Father Divine's followers made good livings as native house sitters. Because followers turned over all of their profits to Father Divine, he was able to build several expansions on the house. He even bought a pricey Cadillac automobile when neighbors complained about his noisy Hudson.
Father Divine's apparent flaunting of wealth annoyed the middle class town. Street-clogging traffic that Father Divine attracked made him unpopular even to businesses he patronized with large cash purchases. Following a June, 1932 trail and prison sentence for disturbing the peace, Father Divine moved to Harlem, New York claiming that Sayville was bigoted. However, the commune remained on Baker Street for many years. Father Divine occasionally preached in Sayville afterward, but the home was only an outpost of his movement, not its center stake.
Sayville is the hometown of Melissa Joan Hart whose show, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, is partially based on her school in Sayville, using the colors of Sayville, purple and gold.
In 1998, media attention visited Sayville after a mother suffocated her 17 year-old daughter Charity Miranda Martin in an effort to exorcise the demons supposedly afflicting her.
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