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Tottenville NY

Conference House Park shore

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: oyster-industry shell and crockery at the wrack line.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Raritan Bay shore below the 1680 Conference House and Burial Ridge, the largest known Lenape burial ground in NYC, with oyster-town debris offshore

Sea glass and pottery reported anecdotally from Tottenville beaches; no named published finds log, so inference from documented history

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Eroding clay bluffsPoison ivy, soft flats

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