Custom House, from Hannibal French House, 2006

There are two factions in the village. One is opposed to the promotion of new industries and the consequent coming in of new people. It objects to any enterprise that may take away the old conservative character of the village, being content to live in the traditions of the past. The other faction favors new industries and new business, and welcomes the stranger and tries to co-operate with the larger social and religious plans of the village, fully realizing that the coming of the newer element is unavoidable with the growth of the community.

Department of Church and Labor, Board of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., The Sag Harbor Survey (1911)