Long Island Real Estate: Great Neck

Prior to 1950 Fort Massapeag was a well preserved earthwork covered by a dense growth of trees, bushes and trailing vines. In August 1953 I learned that the site had been virtually obliterated by the action of bulldozers making way for the extension of Harbor Green, a real estate development adjacent to the village of Massapequa, Long Island. George Peters of the De Department of Public Works, Nassau County, showed me a map on which traces of the earthwork had been plotted before the bulldozers had scraped and furrowed the area, but after the north wall and ditch had been dug away. A visit to the site was unrewarding. A heavy growth of weeds along with a pile of uprooted trees completely masked the area where the fort had stood. At this writing negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of the site by Nassau County in order to preserve what remains. Figure 28 is based on maps made in 1937 and 1938.

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Use Of Focused Electromagnetic-Induction Borehole Geophysics To Delineate The Saltwater-Freshwater Interface In Great Neck, Long Island, New York

10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.209.1993_051 ◽

1993 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick Stumm

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Electromagnetic Induction ◽

Long Island ◽

Borehole Geophysics ◽

Great Neck

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Use of Focused Electromagnetic‐Induction Borehole Geophysics to Delineate the Saltwater‐Freshwater Interface in Great Neck, Long Island, New York

10.4133/1.2922029 ◽

1993 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Frederick Stumm

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Electromagnetic Induction ◽

Long Island ◽

Borehole Geophysics ◽

Great Neck

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A Stone Effigy from Long Island

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/275564 ◽

1946 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 200-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Carlyle S. Smith

Keyword(s):

Long Island ◽

Crystalline Material ◽

Stone Wall ◽

Great Neck

In 1940, at Great Neck, Long Island, Mr. Calmer Forsander found a waterworn glacial cobble with a crudely executed face on one side in an old stone wall bordering his property. Mr. Forsander knew that I had excavated the Baker Hill site, located about three hundred yards west of his house, and brought the find to my attention. The specimen is roughly egg-shaped and is composed of a crystalline material which appears to be indurated sandstone (Fig. 24). It measures approximately IS inches in length, 11 inches in width, and 10 inches in thickness. On one of the broader sides is a face, pecked and ground into the surface. The workmanship is crude and resembles that found on the pitted hammer stones common in the region.

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