Cutchogue, New York

According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has a total area of {{convert|26.3|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|25.2|km2|disp=flip}} is land and {{convert|1.1|km2|disp=flip}}, or 4.2%, is water.

{{US Census population

| 2000 = 2849

| 2010 = 3349

| 2020 = 3437

| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}

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The name Cutchogue is derived from an Algonquin word meaning "principal place". Many of the local Native Americans lived at Fort Corchaug before English-American settlers began arriving in 1640. The Old House, built ca. 1699, is the oldest English-style house in the village. In fact, it is one of the best surviving examples of English domestic architecture in the United States, and it has been named a National Historic Landmark.

Famous 18th century residents include political figure Parker Wickham and his nephew John Wickham. Cutchogue is also the birthplace of composer Douglas Moore (1893–1969).

In 1854, Cutchogue was the location of three notorious murders perpetrated by Nicholas Bain.{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/06/07/97114360.pdf|title=The Wickham Murder - Confession of Nicholas Beheehan|date=June 7, 1854|work=New York Times|access-date=13 June 2010}}

Hargrave Vineyard, the first winery on Long Island, was established in Cutchogue in 1973. The Long Island Merlot Alliance, which promotes wine-making using the merlot grape, the principal Long Island grape, is based in Cutchogue.

• Fort Corchaug, a 17th-century Native American settlement, is a National Historic Landmark.
• Wickham’s Fruit Farm has a family history going back to the 17th century.{{Cite news |last=Benzel |first=Jan |date=2022-05-11 |title=Cutchogue, N.Y.: An Appealing Alternative to the Hamptons |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/realestate/cutchogue-ny-an-appealing-alternative-to-the-hamptons.html |access-date=2022-11-07 |issn=0362-4331}}
• The vintage Cutchogue Diner, housed in an original 1941 Kullman Building Corporation diner.{{Cite web |title=Cutchogue Diner |url=https://www.cutchoguediner.com/ |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=Cutchogue Diner |language=en-US}}
• Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library. The building that is now the Library’s home "was originally a church built by the Independent Congregational Church and Society in 1862."{{Cite web |title=Library History – cutchoguelibrary |url=https://cutchoguelibrary.org/local-history/library-history/ |access-date=2022-11-07 |language=en-US}}
• The Old House (c. 1649), one of the oldest houses in New York state.

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,849 people, 1,120 households, and 801 families residing in the CDP. The population density was {{convert|351.7|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 1,680 housing units at an average density of {{convert|207.4|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the community was 93.86% White, 2.42% African American, 0.04% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 1.72% from other races, and 1.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.69% of the population.{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}

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There were 1,120 households, out of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.3% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.4% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.93.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 21.5% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.9 males.

The median income for a household in the community was $65,469, and the median income for a family was $71,611. Males had a median income of $51,103 versus $34,432 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $35,042. About 2.0% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and 3.4% of those age 65 or over.

An avid sailor, Albert Einstein once called Little Peconic Bay in Cutchogue "the most beautiful sailing ground I ever experienced."{{cite news|last=Kilgannon|first=Corey|title= No Sailor, for Sure, but He Had Relativity Down Cold|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/nyregion/21einstein.html|newspaper=New York Times|access-date=2011-02-27|date=21 July 2007}} In the summers of 1938 and 1939 he rented a cottage on Old Cove Road, now called West Cove Road, on Nassau Point, and spent many hours alone in a little sailboat he called Tineff (Yiddish for "worthless"). Albert Einstein was taught to sail on Little Peconic Bay but his sailing skills left much to be desired.

While in Cutchogue on August 2, 1939, pipe-smoking Einstein was visited by fellow Jewish physicists from Hungary Leó Szilárd (who had produced a nuclear chain reaction in a laboratory at Columbia University) and Edward Teller (both prompted by Niels Bohr), and dictated the famous Letter to President Roosevelt, alerting him to the new developments in nuclear physics and hinting that the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb, urging him to launch his own program.{{cite book |last1=Lanouette |first1=William |last2=Silard |first2=Bela |title=Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilárd: The Man Behind The Bomb |location=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1992 |isbn=0-684-19011-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/geniusinshadowsa00lano/page/202 202] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusinshadowsa00lano/page/202 }} The letter is widely credited with setting in motion the Manhattan Project, the US government effort that built the first atomic bomb.

When Szilárd first explained the concept of a nuclear chain reaction to him, Einstein gave the famous reply, "Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht!" ("I really never thought of that before").{{cite book| last=Isaacson| first=Walter| title=Einstein: His Life and Universe| year=2008| publisher=Simon and Schuster| isbn=978-0-7432-6473-0| pages=[https://archive.org/details/einsteinhislifeu0000isaa/page/472 472]| url=https://archive.org/details/einsteinhislifeu0000isaa| url-access=registration| quote=einstein I never thought of that.}}

• Mattituck-Cutchogue Union Free School District

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