The Fulton one of six submarines tested in New Suffolk.
Approximately a mile off the shore of New Suffolk lays Robbins Island. Now privately owned, the island was once owned by the ardent loyalist, and former Town Supervisor Parker Wickham. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, Wickham was the only loyalist in Southold to lose his property including Robbins Island by an act of the New York Legislature, for siding with the British during the war.