With Eviction Looming, Old Town Records Offer Potential Lifeline to Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery, Showing Town May Own Site - 27 East
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With Eviction Looming, Old Town Records Offer Potential Lifeline to Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery, Showing Town May Own Site

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The Southampton History Museum has owned Conscience Point since 1910, which it dedicated shortly thereafter as the honorary landing point of English settlers on Long Island in 1640. But representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery say they have found documents that seem to indicate the museum does not in fact own the southern portion of the property that contains the the Southampton Town Trustees boat ramp and the small hatchery building. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The Southampton History Museum has owned Conscience Point since 1910, which it dedicated shortly thereafter as the honorary landing point of English settlers on Long Island in 1640. But representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery say they have found documents that seem to indicate the museum does not in fact own the southern portion of the property that contains the the Southampton Town Trustees boat ramp and the small hatchery building. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The Southampton History Museum has owned Conscience Point since 1910, which it dedicated shortly thereafter as the honorary landing point of English settlers on Long Island in 1640. But representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery say they have found documents that seem to indicate the museum does not in fact own the southern portion of the property that contains the the Southampton Town Trustees boat ramp and the small hatchery building. MICHAEL WRIGHT

The Southampton History Museum has owned Conscience Point since 1910, which it dedicated shortly thereafter as the honorary landing point of English settlers on Long Island in 1640. But representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery say they have found documents that seem to indicate the museum does not in fact own the southern portion of the property that contains the the Southampton Town Trustees boat ramp and the small hatchery building. MICHAEL WRIGHT

A surveyors map from 1925 shows the Conscience Point property being two separate parcels, one owned by the town and the other by the Southampton Colonial Society. Representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery plan to use the deed as evidence that the Southampton History Museum cannot evict the hatchery. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

A surveyors map from 1925 shows the Conscience Point property being two separate parcels, one owned by the town and the other by the Southampton Colonial Society. Representatives of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery plan to use the deed as evidence that the Southampton History Museum cannot evict the hatchery. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

authorMichael Wright on Feb 5, 2025
On the eve of a court hearing on whether the Southampton History Museum can evict the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery from the corner of a dirt parking lot that the... more

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