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This 1897 map excerpt shows a Canoe Place and a Canal (top of clip) near the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton (NY). The reservation is well known – in fact it received Federal recognition in 2010 – but what’s the story beyond the “Canoe Place” and the canal?<\/p>\n
We have 2 earlier maps of the same area, 1857 and 1878. They both show the Canoe Place, but not the canal. This suggests a small water crossing between the two bays in early days, enlarged to a canal by 1897. The two earlier charts do not label the Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n
See a view of the whole map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This 1897 map excerpt shows a Canoe Place and a Canal (top of clip) near the Shinnecock Indian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Facebook\"](\"https:\/\/www.old-maps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/64x64\/facebook.png\" "\\"Share")
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