Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Tuckahoe Gate Hill / Shinnecock Hills

Tuckahoe Gate Hill is Tooker's reference to one hill in the Shinnecock Hills range near the historic Tuckahoe gate. The marker represents the broader documented hill landscape rather than claiming an exact summit. A broad marker keeps this recorded Shinnecock Hills place visible without assigning Tooker's historical label to a private parcel or pretending that the precise hill has been recovered. Tooker located the place within the Shinnecock Hills near Tuckahoe gate. Modern Southampton maps retain Tuckahoe Road and the Shinnecock Hills locality, allowing a careful broad placement even though the individual historic hill is not labeled today. Tooker's original heading used a term for Native women that is now recognized as offensive. This listing uses a neutral geographic review title and keeps the original terminology confined to source context rather than the public map label. The...