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Ifiivood Station Site. At the foot of Dyckman Street and Hudson River, 

 there existed a large deposit of shells, most of which were removed when the 

 rocks on which they lay were blasted away for grading the street. A few 

 arrow points and bits of pottery, as well as several Revolutionary objects, 

 were found here. Part of the deposit is still left on the northern shore of 

 the small bay just below Inwood station. There are photographs of this 

 deposit in the Museum. 



Harlem Ship Canal. Formerly at 220th Street and Kingsbridge Road 

 was a large deposit of shells on the westerly side of the road. This was 

 destroyed when the ship canal was put through. As with the Inwood Station 

 site, no systematic examination of this place was ever made. Mr. John 

 Neafie found some potsherds here in 1886, and Mr. Chenoweth also has 

 some potsherds from here.^ Mr. Calver says that this was a large deposit, 

 and that the peculiar thing about it was that the shells were so wedged and 

 packed together that a pick would hardly penetrate them. They lay on the 

 bare rock surface in cracks in the rock. 



Harlem River Deposit. Mr. Calver says, "Extending from 209th Street 

 to 211th Street on the west bank of the Harlem River and almost on a line 

 with Ninth Avenue was another large deposit of oyster shells lying just 

 beneath the top soil of the field. These shells had nearly all been dis- 

 turbed by the plow and are interesting only for their color, Avhich was red. 

 Pieces of horn of deer and split bones of the same animal were common 

 among the shells; but, in spite of the apparent antiquity of the deposit, 

 there were, even in the lowest strata of it, some small fragments of glass which 

 })roved that either the whole mass had been disturbed or else the shells had 

 been left during the historic period. There are several stone sinkers and 

 hammerstones from this spot in Mr. Calver's collection and at the Museum. 



I sham's Garden. This is a large garden about on the line of Isham 

 Street and Seaman Avenue. The soil is white with small fragments of shells. 

 A number of arrow points, flint chips, hammerstones, sinkers and a few bits 

 of pottery have been found here. ]Mr. Calver has found several shell pockets 

 with small deposits of pottery, etc., on the hill to the south of this garden. 



Academy Street Garden. This is a small garden between Academy 

 and Hawthorne Streets, running through from Seaman Avenue to Cooper 

 Street. It was a British camp site during the Revolution, and a number 

 of buttons, gun-flints and bullets have been found there as well as numerous 

 Indian remains. It seems to have been the workshop for a red jasper-like 

 stone of which numerous chips but no finished implements have been found. 

 The shells at this point were first noticed by Mr. Calver in 1890. They 

 may not all be of Indian origin, as some may be due to soldiers. 



1 John Neafie collection, 20-2558; Chenoweth, 20-3498. 



