Amagansett comes from the Native American word meaning ‘place of good water;’ Ronkonkoma means “boundary fishing place;’ Hauppauge means ‘land of high water;’ Commack means ‘pleasant land.’ —Discover Long Island
Wainscott was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and from which most of the early European settlers of East Hampton came.