50 AMEIUCAX MUSEUM (.riDE LEAFLETS 



of tilis cil y, and lias led to the (lisco\-('iy of niiicli xaliiahlc material which 

 has hccii j)i('S('r\'(Ml.' 



'The followiiiji; account of t h<' work is taken niainl\' fioni Mr. ( 'alver's 

 not(>l)ook: 



in the aiiluinn of the year 1889, while exj)lorin^ the heijjjhts of 

 l^looniin^dale (now called Cathedral Heights) for any relics that nii^ht 

 have reniaiiUMl fioin the Battle of Harl(;ni, Mi'. Culver (lisco\'ere(l (jne 

 arrow point at llSth Sticet, oast of Ninth Avenue, and immediately 

 afterwards a circulai' hannnerstone. On a later trip to the same locality, 

 he found a small «!;rooved axe or tomahawk. In Fehruar}', 1890, while 

 hunting; for Revolutionary relics in the vicinity of Fort Washinjjjton, he 

 made a t rip to the northern part of the island in search of British regimen- 

 tal buttons, many of which were said to have been found in that vicinity. 

 There he met an old acquaintance, Mr. John'Pearce, a policeman then on 

 duty there, by whom he was introduced to Mr. James McGuey, a youth 

 residing in the vicinity of 198th Street and Kingsbiidge Road, and, while 

 crossing the oichard at Academy Street and Seaman Avenue, Mr. Calver 

 saw that the ground was thickly strewn with shells which afterwards 

 proved to be of Indian origin. 



The first Sunday in March, Messi's. Calver and McGuey explored 

 this part of the Island for Indian remains. At the junction of Academy 

 Street and Prescott Avenue, they found an Indian j)otsherd the import- 

 ance of which Mr. McGuey seemed to realize, for, a week later, ^Ir. 

 Calver met him again and was presented by him with a number of frag- 

 ments of Indian war(\ He assured Mr. Calver that he had found them In- 

 digging in an Indian graveyard. The two men dug again at this place, 

 and found more pottery. They then \vent to Cold Spring, a point on the 

 extreme northern end of the Island, and in a shell-heap there they found 

 more Indian work. Mr. Alexander C. ( 'henoweth, an engineer then on the 

 Croton Acjueduct, hearing of these discoveries, obtained a permit from 

 the property owners and began to explore ''The Knoll," at DjTkman 

 Street and Broadway, for Indian remains. After having finished here, 

 he went to Cold Spring and made some further discoveries. All his speci- 

 mens were purchased in 1894 by the Museum, and some of them are now 

 on exhibition. 



'In the SpriiiK of ISOO Mr. Edward HaKanian Hall began his investigations and at about the same 

 time Mr. HeginaUl Pelham Holton entered the field of local research. In many instances these gentle- 

 men and Mr. W. L. Calver collaborated with valuable results. In the preservation of the traces of Indian 

 occupation of Manhattan Island the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (formed in IS').") 

 under the presidency of the late Hon. .Vndrew H. Green, but now under that of Dr. George Frederick 

 Kunz) has done inucli jjionccr work. 



