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SOUTHOLD LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION CU-61
Historic Building/Places Inventory
Town of Southold
54375 Route 25, P.O. Box 1179
Southold, NY 11971
Name: Town of Southold/Mark S. Tweedie Date: April 2012
Organization: Town of Southold Landmarks Preservation Commission
Inventory Update:
1. Building/Place Name/Date: Fort Corchaug, (ca. 1640-1661)
2. Tax Map Number/Address: 1000-116.-1-9, 11595 New Suffolk Ave
3. Town of Southold Identification Number: CU-61
4. Current Status of Historic Building(s) or Place(s): -Extant
5. Evidence of Structural Modifications (if any): -None, Intact
6. Notes:
-Seventeenth century “Fort Corchaug” is a National Historic Landmark site and
served multiple functions to the historic Corchaug tribe, but primarily it
served as a wampum bead production, storage, and trading facility. Despite
the forts poorly defendable geographic position, the structure likely served
as a defensive structure during the Pequot War and afterwards. One of the
most important archaeological and historic sites in Northeastern United
States; contributes significantly to historic landscape of Cutchogue.
Photographic Record of Historic Building(s) or Place(S) - April 2012:
View is south of plaque near entrance to park trail head.
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Shantok-ware Pottery rim recovered by Dr. Ralph Solecki at Fort Corchaug
during excavations in 1930's (Photographed by Mark Tweedie, 2007).
View is north of northeastern portion of Fort embankment.
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View is northeast of wampum shell making debris (Quahog/Whelk) and quartz
flake at surface of northeastern bastion of Fort Corchaug.