Bluff Point State Park

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Bluff Point State Park
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location Groton , New London County , USA
surface 3.26 km²
Geographical location 41 ° 20 '  N , 72 ° 2'  W Coordinates: 41 ° 19 '30 "  N , 72 ° 1' 43"  W
Bluff Point State Park, Connecticut
Bluff Point State Park
Setup date 1963
administration Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection, Connecticut
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Bluff Point State Park is a state park in the US state of Connecticut in the area of ​​the municipality of Groton . The park includes a pristine peninsula in Long Island Sound between the Poquonnock River and Mumford Cove . The landscape features of the park include a spit , high cliffs, wooded areas and tidal marshes. Recreational opportunities include boating, saltwater fishing, mussel fishing, as well as hiking and mountain biking.

history

Bluff Point has been known as the abode of Indians since the 16th century. Reverend William Hubbard claimed that as early as 1500 the Pequots immigrated from the valley of the upper Hudson River to central and eastern Connecticut. In his 1677 Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England , Hubbard relates that the Pequot occupied the area before the Plymouth Colony was founded and describes them as strangers from the interior of the continent. However, archaeological, linguistic , and documentary evidence now available clearly shows that the Pequot had been an indigenous people in the area for thousands of years. In 1649 the Town of New London left a piece of land to John Winthrop the Younger , which he expanded into the Winthrop's Neck settlement . This area included the land that is now Bluff Point State Park, Haley Farm State Park , Mumford Cove , and Groton Long Point . The area was later divided into Great Farm (Bluff Point) and Fort Hill Farm . Sometime after the Pequot War , a single farmhouse was built in the country, the foundations of which can still be seen today, growing blackberries and apples, which are still found in the country to this day. According to Groton Revisited , this house was built by Edward Yeomans around 1712 on land leased from the Winthrop family. Legend has it that a boulder on the beach, now known as Split Rock , suddenly jumped up with the sound of a cannon shot. This happened in January 1780. Leary writes that water that had penetrated an existing crevice probably burst the rock when it froze.

According to Maura Hallisey, Bluff Point was originally planned as a state health resort in 1914. In 1892 Walter Denison opened a summer resort at Bushy Point. As interest in camping grew after 1900, Bluff Point became a popular destination. Tents and huts grew into a small cluster of summer cottages. At the weddings there were 100 cottages in the 1930s. In 1938, however, the owner decided to give up the sublease and demolish the buildings. Before a protest could form, however, nature intervened. A strong hurricane hit the coast on September 21st and swept away all buildings except Winthrop Place. In 1907, Bluff Point comprised 1,135 acres of land known as Poquonnock Farm. This was leased to John Abbott Ackley. The northern area was Fort Hill, where the high-yielding potato fields of Ackley's were. During World War II , the federal government took possession of the land to provide temporary housing for Electric Boat workers . The Winthrop House burned down on September 14, 1962. Only the chimney remained. It was later used to reconstruct Ebenezer Avery House's chimney after it was moved to Fort Griswold .

In 1963 the state acquired the western third of Bluff Point from Henry A. Gardiner III. During this time, the state tried to acquire the land because it was the last remaining stretch of undeveloped coastline in Connecticut and its rocky cliffs on the narrow beaches are characteristic of the Connecticut coast. The Bluff Point Advisory Council , a local committee of civic groups and government officials successfully urged the state to acquire and protect the land. In 1975 Bluff Point was named a Coastal Reserve . This status gave Bluff Point State Park the highest possible level of protection in the state park system and helps protect the large number of threatened animal and plant species in the area. Access to the park is via Interstate 95 .

nature

Fish species include striped bass , lake trout , blue fish, and summer flounder .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ^ State Parks and Forests : Funding, Recruiting, and Referrals. (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b c Bluff Point State Park . CPTV. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  4. ^ William Hubbard, The History of the Indian Wars in New England 2 vols. (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845), vol. 2, pp. 6-7.
  5. ↑ For archaeological evidence see Irving Rouse, "Ceramic Traditions and Sequences in Connecticut," Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin 21 (1947): 25; Kevin McBride, "Prehistory of the Lower Connecticut Valley" (Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1984), pp. 126-28, 199-269; and all other facts about the origin of the Pequot in Means, "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships," 26–33. Historical: Alfred A. Cave, "The Pequot Invasion of Southern New England: A Reassessment of the Evidence," New England Quarterly 62 (1989): 27-44; Linguistically: Truman D. Michelson, "Notes on Algonquian Language," International Journal of American Linguistics 1 (1917): 56-57.
  6. ^ Haley Farm: A History . Groton Open Space Association. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gosaonline.org
  7. ↑ a b Carol W. Kimball, James L. Streeter, Marilyn J. Comrie: Groton Revisited . Arcadia Publishing. Pp. 28-29. 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Leary, Joseph: A Shared Landscape: A Guide & History of Connecticut's State Parks & Forests . Friends of the Connecticut State Parks, Inc., 2004, ISBN 0974662909 , pp. 20-22.
  9. ↑ Leary writes: "[b] before a legal protest could be mounted, nature adjudicated the issue. On September 21, 1938, a massive hurricane came ashore at high tide. Except for the old Winthrop place, it destroyed nearly every building on the site. " Leary, Joseph: A Shared Landscape: A Guide & History of Connecticut's State Parks & Forests . Friends of the Connecticut State Parks, Inc., 2004, ISBN 0974662909 , pp. 20-22.
  10. ↑ "last remaining significant portion of undeveloped shoreline in Connecticut" and that its "rocky bluffs standing behind narrow beaches typified the Connecticut coast."

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