Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Caumsett

Caumsett names Lloyd Neck in Huntington and connects the peninsula with stone, shoreline, Native place knowledge, and seventeenth-century land records. Caumsett names Lloyd Neck in Huntington, a peninsula bounded by Oyster Bay, Cow Harbor, and Long Island Sound. The existing polygon is a modern outline for the neck, not a surveyed colonial boundary. Caumsett preserves a Native name for Lloyd Neck, interpreted as a place near a sharp rock or whetstone-like stone. That meaning points to geology as part of Indigenous place knowledge: rocks were not just scenery, but useful materials connected to sharpening, work, and orientation. The North Shore appears here as a Native landscape where peninsulas, harbors, and stone resources were known and named with care. 1687 Fort Neck/Lloyd Neck map A 1687 hand-drawn map of Fort Neck / Lloyd Neck meadows preserves a colonial view of the same shoreline...