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A Note on Fort Massapeag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carlyle S. Smith
Carlyle S. Smith*
Affiliation:
Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Kansas
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Prior to 1950 Fort Massapeag was a well preserved earthwork covered by a dense growth of trees, bushes and trailing vines. In August 1953 I learned that the site had been virtually obliterated by the action of bulldozers making way for the extension of Harbor Green, a real estate development adjacent to the village of Massapequa, Long Island. George Peters of the De Department of Public Works, Nassau County, showed me a map on which traces of the earthwork had been plotted before the bulldozers had scraped and furrowed the area, but after the north wall and ditch had been dug away. A visit to the site was unrewarding. A heavy growth of weeds along with a pile of uprooted trees completely masked the area where the fort had stood. At this writing negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of the site by Nassau County in order to preserve what remains. Figure 28 is based on maps made in 1937 and 1938.

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1954 , pp. 67 - 68
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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References

Smith, Carlyle S. 1950. The Archaeology of Coastal New York. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 43, Part 2.Google Scholar
Solecki, Ralph S. 1950. The Archeological Position of Fort Corchaug, L.I., and its Relation to Contemporary Forts. Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut, No. 24.Google Scholar