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Water Mill is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Southampton on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,559 at the 2010 census. Its ZIP Code is 11976.

As of 2010, Water Mill was listed as the fourteenth most expensive ZIP Code in the United States by Forbes. The median house price was $2,965,097.

In 1644, England gave Edward Howell 40 acres (16 ha) of land close the new concurrence of Southampton to construct a mill for settlers to scrape their grain into meal. It became a landmark, and people began referring to extra settlements that popped occurring as “east or west of the watermill.” By the 1800s, the area was known as Water Mills and was complex changed to Water Mill. Howell’s Water Mill was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Today, the hamlet boasts its status as the only settlement on the South Fork of Long Island in the space of both a dynamic watermill and windmill. Both the Watermill (ref#83004175) and the James Corwith gristmill (ref#78001919) are landmarked in the NRHP. Today Water Mill is a resort community of beautiful beaches, farms and mega mansions. Celebrities and public figures such as Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Lauer, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Steven Schwartzman and Bruce Blakeman own homes or have vacationed there. Louise Fitzhugh’s pubertal adult novel The Long Secret takes place in Water Mill.