More info: Windmill Beach is located downtown in Sag Harbor village, in Suffolk County, New York, in the towns of Southampton and East Hampton on eastern Long Island. The small sandy beach is wedged between Long Wharf and the Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Sag Harbor is mentioned in Herman Melville’s famed book, Moby Dick. Settled in the early 1700s Sag Harbour became a prosperous harbour and the first commercial port in the United States.