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Historic Building/Places Inventory
Town of Southold
54375 Route 25, P.O. Box 1179
Southold, NY 11971
Name: Town of Southold Date: 2013
Organization: Town of Southold Landmarks Preservation Commission
Inventory Update:
1. Building/Place Name/Date: Five Wigwams, (Post-Contact, Prehistoric?)
2. Tax Map Number/Address: 1000-53.-1-9, 690 Brooks Road
3. Town of Southold Identification Number: GR-4
4. Current Status of Historic Building(s) or Place(s): -Extant
5. Evidence of Structural Modifications: -N/A.
6. Notes: -Large area is relatively undeveloped, and it is likely that
archaeological deposits associated with the historic Five Wigwams settlement
of the Corchaug Indians are extant subsurface. S.P.L.I.A. survey forms for
both GR-3 and GR-4 note that neighboring land owners have recovered numerous
Native American artifacts on their property like stone projectile points and
axes. This location is one of many unique early Colonial sites where Corchaug
Indians were forcefully relocated to facilitate the acquisition of lands on
the North Fork (see also SLPC Landmark PE-15). As is the case at Five
Wigwams, after a time, the Corchaug were again forcefully removed to another
location, apparently when Coopers discovered high quality hickory for barrel-
making in the vicinity.
Photographic Record of Historic Building(s) or Place(S) - 2013:
Bing.com Bird’s Eye View, Aerial, North View.
(Note large Clay Pit Pond GR-3 is visible in top of image)