Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Tinnie's Water Hole / Napeague Beach

In his 1911 place-name study, William Wallace Tooker recorded Tinnie's as a water hole on Napeague Beach near the Amagansett Hills. The historic water hole has not been matched to a named modern pond, so this marker represents the broader Napeague beach and dune landscape. The name records a small water feature within the Napeague coastal landscape and a story about a woman whose identity was not preserved in the printed account. A broad marker keeps the record searchable without inventing an exact pond or treating an unverified story as established fact. The surviving description places Tinnie's on Napeague Beach near the Amagansett Hills. Modern state maps confirm the Napeague State Park landscape between Amagansett and Hither Hills, but they do not preserve Tinnie's as a mapped water feature. Tooker repeated a story that the place was named for a Native woman who drowned there. He did...