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J)UILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO.1646, OR-71
" DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEN' YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY.NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of 1;n17th01rl,/SPLjp, DATE:janua,r71988
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd TELEPHONE:516 765 1$93
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): grnithnlrl Tciym C'ommimi ter npr zAlonment rlffiGo
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IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): 1(1 rl S12vP Ritryinog Crnlinri -
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Sol ithoirl _ViLLAGFE C-lrjent
3. STREET LOCATION: Narrow River Rd- , east side, Gn,� of King Sr _ inters ction.
4. OWNERSIIIP: a, public ❑ h private ❑
S. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
G. USF: Original: remetery Present: rameterV
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes Lx� No C
Interior accessible: Explain y s
DESCRIPTION
S. 111JILDIN6 a. clapboard ❑ b. stone c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATFRIAL: e_ cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
1r. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other_gravestones, fieldstones, rock wall
10. CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good ❑ c, fair ❑ d. deteriorated
1 1. IN f l (IRI I ti'. a. original site KI b, moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known h. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. tither:
15. RELATLD OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: marshl and—
j. other: Higtnriral Mn lrAr at antranra
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land [2 b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
-f. industrial ❑ g. residential k]
h.other:
17 INTLRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located at the end of a grassy path surrounded by low
shrubbery and marshland . Gardiners Bay directly south.
Low density residential, with a row of post-war houses
directly acros Narrgw River Road . Tuthill House ,
( I � t �} � J1H. � LF WLfOf'RI Kc I�T
Sfiq.: kluding inferior features if known):
Small cemetery surrounded by a dry stone wall with an
open entrance flanked by 2 wood posts . 2 marked stones
(neg: K7 Ix-14) and 20 unmarked fieldstones arranged in
parallel rows fill the grassy enclosure. The marked
stone; also have footstones.
SIGNIFICANCE:
11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 18th century._
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER: f
`0. HISTORICAL AND ARC1if FFC'Tt1RAL IMPORTANCE:
Historical Marker reads : "Slaves Burying Ground . Slavery
persisted in O,ysterponds until about 1830. Here were buried
some twenty slaves . Here also lie the remains of Br. Seth H.
Tuthill , proprietor of "Hog Pond Farm" land those of his wife ,
Maria. It was their wish that they be buried with their for-
mer servants." "Oysterponds Historical Society, Inc ."
This graveyard is maintained by the Oysterponds Historical
Society.
.'.I. SOURCES: Historical Markers 1959 pp. 16 & 39 .
Historic Sites o -Southold Town. . . to 1815 .
Map, 173.
22. THEME':
Form prepared 4 Kurt Kahofer, research assistant.
O . 71
: The Tuthill gravestones
Old
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NEW YORK STATE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM
For Office Use Only--Site Identifier
Project Identifier goutho d Inventory Date Feb . 10 198F
Your Name Towia f Southold/SF'T�I A Phone ' 1 765-
18Q2-Address Town Hall , Main Road
fouthold . L.I . N.Y.
zip 11971
Organization (if any) Southold gown Community ?development Office
1 . Site Identifier (s) gown Broat si .e ,�J ager site , Five Acre Indian
2 . County One of following: City Village site , Ancient Indian
Township lorit a
Incorpora age
Unincorporated Village or
Hamlet Orient
3 . Present Owner �M111t.ple
Address
zip
4 . Site Description (check all appropriate categories) :
Site
_Stray find —Quarry
_Workshop
_Pictograph Quarry Mound
Burial 7 Shell midden 7Village
Surface evidence _Camp Material in plow zone
—Material below plow zone Buried evidence Intact occupation floor
Single component —Evidence of features _Stratified
_Multicomponent
Location
_Under cultivation Never cultivated -7 Previously cultivated
_Pastureland `Woodland 7 Floodplain
_Upland —Sustaining erosion
Soil Drainage : excellent _ good_ fair_ poor _
Slope : flat _ gentle _ moderate _ steep _
Distance to nearest water from site (approx. )
Elevation:
5 . Site Investigation (append additional sheets , if necessary) :
Surface date (s)
Site Map (Submit with form*)
Collection
Subsurface--K--date (s)
Testing: shovel coring other unit size
no. of units (Submit plan of units with form*) �^
Excavation : unit size no. of units
(Submit plan of units with form*)
Submission should be W'xll" , if feasible
Inc , L.I .Chapt. of the NYS Archeological Assoc . 1925-1929
Investigator goy T 7
Page 2 OR 72
Manuscript or published report (s) (reference fully) :
Archival Evaluation of the Orient Point Subdivision Orient Point ,
Southold . boriginal Site otential.
Historic Orient Village . Oysterponds Historical Society, 1976 .
Present repository of materials S'� -pf lr ("nun+v 11rchi nl ngiCal Assoc .
6 . Component (s) (cultural affiliation/dates) :
Tate Woodland (Sebona.c) Period
orient Focus people .
7 List of material remains (be as specific as possible in identifying
object and material) : 3000 scrapers
if historic materials are evident , check here and fill out historic
site form.
8 . Map References : Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identified
by source and date . Keep this submission to 8�"x11" ,
if possible.
USGS 7� Minute Series Quad. Name Orient Quad ,
For Office Use Only UTM Coordinates
9 . Photography (optional for environmental impact survey) :
Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print (s) showing the current
state of the site . Provide a label for the print (s) on a separate
sheet.
-Benj . F. Thompson in his History of T)ong Island 1843 , (Vol. II
P -382) states that there was an Indian Fort on Gideon' s Island
in Orient.
NYS DT:O' mentions 3 ,000 ,000 year old archeological site .on
Gids Island .
Peters , The Trees of Lon , Island , (1971) reports that a relict
species, Red pruce , only grew naturall7r on Long Island on Gids
Tsland at Orient.
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1� p b s a tau{ `Z, ) became 0X5rfRPOMPS afftr 1h On
'i M A �a �►1t ' EltgkF 4 scIlled 6&,,rwoco in 1640.
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"--W /0 ORIENT'.
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Village House 3tt r�3
Old Pbo ntSchoaihouse: ` r"'' fr `,' / r �
World Warp Monurnen� 1 ogre
3 W000 WarI Monument d �� y�' i - s ' F¢rr
4 Revolutionary Cottage N w � � :t � :''. -- � •�
S Site of Windmill +
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6 methodist Church 1028 _
7 Civi f War Monurnen} �d ° _. ?—— —' _ � '
8 BU1#onu)oodTr¢¢ planed
corly5efflers(4s a boundary?)
oc 9 Congregafionol Church 17.35 -1. . �c `.��`t €�f�Y' h ,; � 0
to BrOL[}n's Hill Cemetery 1690 _ e
I Thornas7erry Housr 16GG
12 oriel I Siter School house now in 1
4?et+muelGlover House,abouf '1700
14w5huacurfis Hpuse'abO01700 }cr �,. Qa►.,=
orient Point Inn 1785 i �� 4�e.,+s►a ;,,j�.:� r �-
16JiIIctge Dock 1740 _4��? ► X.
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A Vi lfa9e L�a¢ne 17o5 l'r .'1
B SKippers to i. c/Y
C Oysf¢rpo .. .. �4
tans y y�' "-== cr_ ORIENT--LONG ISLAND
tong Be4chHIM
YHA itoMe OP'
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+�.. The Tepees&shoo}Locations of cm aldSla0e BJryingGround a4HogFbnd STExPpNDS .HiSTORICAt,SOCIETY
crRG.rr•.ttZaa /944 r .
Fbqua+uclt Indian camps I old Fornil Cemeteries
Herbert M. Hale designed two pictorial maps of Orient,one in 1935 and the one above for the
OHS in 1950. Larger reproductions of both are available at the Museum.Mr,Hale retired to �
Orient and lived in the house shown at page 10b. tv
Historic Orient ''illaE:e . 1976
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THE EXHIBITS 45
must have brought in[" Mr. Goddard continued his storylike
description. Dugout canoes had to be made, and here is the
stone Celt which gouged out the wood after charring. Work
was to be done by the man too, as well as the busy squaw. k '
There had to be constant renewal of stone, and sometimes M
antler arrowheads, as you see here. The preparing of their d
tools of industry was no light task. You notice the grooved
axes of tough, igneous rock, the Celts, the adzes, the gouges;
17 but the hammerstones, the lap anvils, the polishers, the whets
and the net sinkers involved selection of material, only, from
the nearest stones at hand.
"Needs of the spirit—yes. Patient labor went into articles i
for self-decoration as these pendants and bone beads show.
2 Along with the decoration of the pottery, see the aspiration
toward beauty I"
F The cremation site at Orient, Mr. Goddard described, had
yielded many caches of red paint, powdered hematite and of
broken soapstone vessels, "killed" to let out the spirit; of
arrow points, knives and many implements. Roy Latham had
found much in that part, as Nat E. Booth had found in the
Ol to y–painstaking digging. Th . Ori _n ._site, with a
component in Shinnecock Hills, spoke of�e earli_est known
Indian occupation on the island.
e scrapers, the drills, the many chipped stone articles,
r the bifurcated, side-notched, fishtailed arrow points, the old
pipes, the chisels made of beaver teeth, the bone awls, needles,
the jasper trade blades from Mattituck shores, the chert
` blades from a Southold creek head, all of these and much, ,
much more were arranged in impressive collections. They told
of the wealth of material which the active field group of the
Long Island Chapter had assembled in their findings, estab-
lishing knowledge of Indian culture on Long Island.
This Tercentenary exhibit was consistently confined to ma-
terial from Southold Town, but the chapter has excavated
extensively on the South Fork as well, and on Shelter Island.
Of course the primary objective of the work of this chapter is
the exploration and study of Indian remains at the eastern end
of Long Island. Membership has been drawn from widely
�`t` separated parts of the eastern section of the island. It has
uinite.
come about that individual members or leaders of a group have
old Southold Town' s Tercentenary*.
Ann llock urrie– e 1 1940 E �
_3_ OR 7 2
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Archival Evaluation of the Orient Point Subdivision ,
Orientoint , Sou-t-hold .
The Mount Pleasant Site is located around a small
embayment opposite Terry Point . It was excavated
by Foster H. Saville and the Inc . L. I . Chapter of
the N_Y_S _ Archaeological Association.
The Major Banks Site is located at the mouth of this
same small em ayment (southeast of the Mount Plea—
sant Site) on orient Harbor . This site was also
recorded by the Inc . L. I . Chapter of the N.Y. S .
Archaeological Association _
The Brown Brothers ' Site is located on a westerly Archeological
feeder stream of Hallocks Bay . V____ site .
The Barnfield Neck Site is located on Eagle Point .
a peninsula which juts into Long Beach Bay . This
was a village site recorded by the Inc _ L. I . Chap—
ter of the N . Y- S . Archaeological Association.
The Jagger Site is located on the west side of Hat—
locks Bay north of the Brown Brothers ' Site. It
was excavated by four members of the Inc . L_ I _ Chap—
ter of the N _ Y _ S _ Archaeological Association be—
tween 1925 and 1929 . It was an aboriginal village
site of the Late Woodland (Sebonac) Period which
also contained some historic material .
The Latham Brothers ' Farm Site is located near the
headwaters of Hallocks Bay . It was excavated by
Roy Latham of the Inc . L. I _ Chapter of the N.Y . S . i
Archaeological Associaticn . Latham described it
as a double child burial (two infants placed back
to back with their heads toward the south) within
a 26` deep grave . Ten feet south of the burial
was a circular pit (30- in diameter and 28" deep)
filled with soft clam shells . A Sebonac pot was
found between thr burial and the pit .
The Eagle Neck Site is located on Eagles Neck Point j
on Long Beach Bay . It was recorded by the Inc .
L . I . Chapter of the N.Y . S . Archaeological Assoc .
The Orient Beach State Park Site is located on a
narrow peninsula which juts southwesterly into
Gardiners Bay .
The Five Acre Indian Village Site is located north
of King St . between King St . and Narrow River Rd .
It was excavated by Roy Latham and R . W}ggens in
1925 and 1958 . They describe it as part of an
extensive shell heap floor that extended from Long
Beach Bay to Orient Harbor .
The King Street Site is located west of King St .
and east of Village La _
by Billadello & Johannemann 1
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A SHORT HISTORY OF ORIENT
The community of Orient occupies the eastern extremity by sales and exchanges of property the road eventually be-
of Long Island's North Fork from Truman's Beach to Orient came the new boundary line for dividing tracts of land.
Point, a tract of about 3,000 acres. The village of Orient is The tradition is recorded in Griffin's Journal that "John
located on the southwestern side of this area. Both the vil- Tuthill, John Youngs, Jr., Israel Brown, Richard Brown,
lage and community of Orient were formerly called Oyster- Samuel Brown, and John King, were the first six men to
ponds and, in the early days, East Marion was included but settle in this place (Oysterponds) with their families." The
was distinguished as Oysterponds Upper Neck, while Orient first rude dwelling was erected about one-third of a mile
was known as Oysterponds Lower Neck. The name was changed east of Truman's Beach by Israel Brown. Further to the
from Oysterponds to Orient in 1836 by general agreement of the east, along road that eventually became known as King's
inhabitants, and the new name was selected to signify the area's Highway, the other five men mentioned above built houses
eastern position on Long Island. This irregularly-shaped penin- and laid out their farms. None of the first six dwellings sur-
sula of Orient was formed by the last glacier, the Wisconsin Ice, vived beyond Augustus Griffin's time.
about 10,000 years ago. We can only surmise what these early houses were like
The area was first inhabited by a primitive group known tfrom Griffin's references. He speaks of a "good sized" house
archaeologists as the Orient Focus people. A study of the near Israel Brown's, that was built about 1670 and taken
village sites, pottery and stone dishes and implements left by down around 1829. Of a 1691 house, he says it stood about
these people in Orient indicates that they had no overlapping 150 years, being taken down in 1837 to make room for a
contact with the Indians of historic times, probably vanishing two story house (Griffin seems to be very particular about
or migrating long before the later Indians appeared. noting the construction or raising of a house to a second
Most of what is known about the Orient Focus culture conies story). A Tuthill family house built about 1666 was believed
heological work done by Roy Latham, a self-educated by Griffin to be "the oldest frame one in this place. It was
Orient farms , td`e—y—respee a or his unsurpassed double, with two small front rooms, a narrow entry between
researches on the flora and fauna of Long Island, them, a story and a half high, near 30 feet front and 23 feet
The Indian tribes found by the early explorers had settled rear; the roof the steepest I ever knew. . .This ola relic of
on Long Island about 1,000 years ago, and language similar- ancient days was moved off the premises, converted into a
ities prove that they were once part of the Algonquian Nation barn in or near 1800, and about 1822 taken down. . ."
that held the southern New England area. The Indian name., Griffin writes of an 1816 "double house" later being
for the Orient peninsula was Poquatuck. The Long Island "enlarged and raised to that of a two story, much unlike
Indians were often subjected to raids by their more powerful those antique constructed abodes of our honest, good-
neighbors and, in general, they tended to favor alliances with hearted fathers. . .The beams of those venerable houses were
the early settlers for protection from these raids. They were mostly of white oak, many of them more than 12 and 16
very willing to sell their lands for the trinkets the settlers inches square. They were handsomely planed and beaded."
brought, little realizing that the newcomers also brought new Wood was used for things other than house building, of
diseases, such as smallpox and diphtheria, which would deci- course, but it is interesting that Warren Hall's recent book
mate their tribes within a generation. of Southold history brings to light the fact that in 1654,
Oysterponds (Orient) was included in the land acquired only fourteen years after the first settlers, there was such
by the early settlers, who founded Southold in 1640. The a scarcity of timber in the town of Southold that the town
purchase of the land was arranged in the New Haven Colony, authorities had to enact a law limiting the cutting of
which then had jurisdiction, and deeds were obtained from timber "from the utmost part of the town westward. . . to
the Indians on Long Island. The original deeds have been the furthest point of that neck of land, Plumb Gutt." In
lost, but a confirmatory deed, signed in 1665, was recorded 1660 they passed another law to the same effect.
in the town records. Later, a patent, which delineated the About 1717, when there were approximately 24 families
geographical area included under the civil jurisdiction of living in Oysterponds, a general collection was taken to build
Southold, was granted by Governor Andros in 1676. This a meeting house. The house was built on the north side of
patent include'd7_0 an s From Wading River to Oysterponds King's Highway on land purchased from David Youngs for
Point and Plum Island. According to the historians, Griffin five shillings. The original building was about 30 feet square,
and Thdm35u7. J1Abr Hallock laid claim to Oysterponds by two stories high, with a steeple surmounted by a gamecock
virtue of an Indian deed obtained in 1647. Hallock, how- weathervane. This building served as a church and as a
ever, returned to England and made no use of the land. The gathering place for civic and social affairs for 100 years. The
Southold settlers soon found it necessary to enlarge their stocks and whipping post were located nearby, but were
common pasture lands for grazing cattle, sheep and hogs, sparingly used. In 1818 the old building was torn down and
and they used Oysterponds as well as other unassigned areas replaced, and in 1843 the present church was erected on the
for this purpose.. site. The parish was designated as a Congregational Church
The date 1661 is generally accepted as the time when in 1735—the oldest of this denomination in New York.
Oysterponds was permanently settled. A single lot in the When Methodism was introduced in Oysterponds in 1802
Oysterponds tract was 50 acres, and the original lot's were by itinerant circuit riders, followers of the new movement held
generally laid out Mthat they were bounded on the north services in private homes, By 1836 the Methodists had raised
by the Sound and on the south by the bay. In a short time sufficient funds to build their church near the center of the
a road was laid out through the middle of Oysterponds and village on land donated by Vincent Youngs.Thus,the Methodist
Historic Orient Village . 197E
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S THE TREES OF LONG ISLAND FORMATiDN OF T
1
Following the receding ice came the pioneer Arctic plants such l
as are seen today struggling for existence along the northern edge 1
of the Canadian tundra or at the foot of the Greenland Icecap.
Possibly the first tree that established itself permanently along a sand I
bar of an ice water stream rushing across the South Shore outwash a
plains, was a dwarf Arctic Willow. Then as the climate moderated,
more and more hardy plants crept in from the South until eventually l
the entire surface of Long Island became covered with a boreal flora l
similar to that of Labrador today. However, this flora could not
remain static because as the climate became warmer more aggressive
southern species appeared and crowded out the northern plants. This
process of changing forest composition has continued even until
this day and many evidences of progressive plant succession are
manifest at the present time.
THE FORMATION OF LONG ISLAND'S FORESTS
An interesting evidence of the continuing south-to-north migra-
tion of plants along the Atlantic Coast and its effect on the flora of
Long Island is the occurrence of rear-guard plants termed botanically
as "relicts." These are single individuals or small groups of a tree
species essentially belonging to a more northern plant zone and
which are found in a few favorably cool, moist situations. These =4 ',',
isolated examples typical of a Canadian or New England mountain " 4
.. .f: .`.M :...:..yT
forest no doubt are the lingering remains of a post-glacial- Iacial forest that
has been displaced by those species more compatible with our com-
paratively milder climate.
A striking instance of a relict species on Long Island is the
Red Spruce, common in the Canadian Life Zone, but which until
recently grew naturally on Long Island only in one small group on
Gids Island at Orie t. Forty or fifty large trees were cut down in
1700--and Tour trees still existed in 1920 but fires have destroyed
them all since then.
Another example of a "left behind" species is the Paper or
Canoe Birch, a common Adirondack tree, but which is only found
on Long Island as scattered individuals in cool,moist woods at Wean-
danch, Greenoort and Noyack. Seedlings at these locations are prac-
W-411y non-existent so we may be soon seeing the natural disappear-
ance of another northern plant from Long Island.
Other northern species, such as White Pine, Hemlock and I Located on the
Sugar Maple, are rare as native trees on Long Island and do not
Petere , The Trees_ of Lore Island . 1973 �,