Jamaica Bay: A History, Historic Resources Study
Black FR. 1981. Jamaica Bay: A History, Historic Resources Study. Contract No. S7219 NAR (AC) LFB-NARO-9-0047. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Washington D. C.
This history covers that portion of Jamaica Bay within the confines of the Jamaca Bay Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area. Chronologically, the study begins with the arrival of the Dutch in the seventeenth century and ends with the middle of the twentieth century. Topically, the focus falls on the historic "uses" of the bay and its periphery. Generally, those uses consist of residential settlement, agriculture, industry, fishing, shipping, other forms of transportation, and recreation. Some of these activities require alteration in the topography of the bay, and a description of the major alterations is contained in this study. Although the foregoing paragraph defines the broad perimeters of this history, they have not been rigidly observed. A number of considerations have dictated departures from strict boundaries in time, space and topic. Thus logic, the availability of sources, the existing secondary literature, and the preference and competence of the writer have occasioned flexibility in the scope of the present study.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Black, Frederick
- Date of Issue
- 1981-03
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- GATE , NER
- Keywords
- Bibliography, Brooklyn New York, Cultural Resources, Historic Resources, Historical Account, History, Land Use, Natural Resources, New York City New York, Queens New York