Calverton is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on eastern Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

Calverton was first referred to as "Baiting Hollow Station" when the Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1844.

[3][4] The area's Native American name was Conungum or Kanungum, meaning "fixed line" or "boundary".

It remained a small farming community specializing in cranberries, which grew in swampy areas along the Peconic River until the Navy purchase.

In 1953, the United States Navy purchased 6,000 acres (24 km2) around Calverton from a local farmer named Harry Edwards, including the mansion of a grandson of Frank Winfield Woolworth's, so that Grumman could test and finish jets.

In 1965, Nelson Rockefeller proposed using the base as the fourth major airport for the New York metropolitan area.

In January 2008, the Riverhead Town Board, with newly elected officers, signed a deal to sell the airport for $155 million to Riverhead Resorts, to build the ski mountain, tear up the airport runway, and replace it with a lake, overruling a December vote to give the NASCAR track the go-ahead.

[7] Several new medium size industrial companies have sprung up in the area, including Crown Recycling and a Federal Express Distribution Center.