Those Champlain Maps That Look Like Drawings

 I got these maps all mixed up in my mind yesterday:

Those Champlain Maps That Look Like Drawings

Above is a Wabanaki Village on the Saco River

(in present-day Maine, United States) 

Below is Port Saint Louis, according to Champlain

or Accomack/Plimoth, according to Captain John Smith

as well as Patuxet,

according to:

https://plimoth.org/yath/unit-1/port-st-louis

And:

"In the manuscript, Smith originally called Plymouth by its Native American name, Accomack, but after consulting with Prince Charles the prince changed the name to New Plimouth," according to:

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/plymouth-name/

"French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s map of “Port St. Louis” from 1605 is the earliest known European representation of Patuxet, the Wampanoag community that became the site of Plymouth Colony and which the Herring Pond Wampanoag still call home today. The name “Patuxet” has several possible translations including “place of little falls” and “place of little springs.” At the time of Champlain’s visit to Patuxet, the population numbered approximately 2,000 people. Families cultivated corn, beans, and squash in their gardens, gathered food, and came together for political and social meetings. In his book, The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (1613), the author described the encounter depicted in this map. Here is an English translation from the original French:

The same day we sailed two leagues along a sandy coast, as we passed along which we saw a great many cabins and gardens. The wind being contrary, we entered a little bay to await a time favorable for proceeding. There came to us two or three canoes, which had just been fishing for cod and other fish, which are found there in large numbers. These they catch with hooks made of a piece of wood, to which they attach a bone in the shape of a spear, and fasten it very securely. The whole has a fang-shape, and the line attached to it is made out of the bark of a tree. They gave me one of their hooks, which I took as a curiosity. In it, the bone was fastened on by hemp, like that in France...Some of them came to us and begged us to go to their river. We weighed anchor to do so, but were unable to do so on account of the small amount of water, it being low tide, and were accordingly obliged to anchor at the mouth…1

https://plimoth.org/yath/unit-1/port-st-louis

At least I didn't confuse it with present-day Chaffinch Island

(although the shape of the bay causes one to wonder about tidal fishweirs):

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=chaffinch

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=champlain

Pomperaug's Village (Woodbury CT)

 Envisioning Pomperaug's Village site

Dames' Map Corrections:

Town of Woodbury CT:

Mount Orenaug:

Waking Up on Turtle Island: An "Unlikely Place" for a Ceremonial Stone Landscape (Intro)

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2018/09/an-unlikely-place-for-ceremonial-stone_10.html

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2018/09/an-unlikely-place-for-ceremonial-stone_11.html

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2023/03/orenaug-striking-serpents.html

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-boulder-split-into-four-quarters.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/albums/72157692218434925/

The Deer Path "StoneWall" (Weston CT) Part Two

 Stonework and Stonework on Google maps and Google Earth

   “I keep looking for a view of them on Google maps and Google Earth where street views are available but the foliage gets in the way and I can't show you a good view of that,” I mentioned in the previous post, here:  https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-deer-path-stone-wall-weston-ct-part.html

 

   So I kept looking (as if that were the only thing in the world I was thinking about):

Of course there's the modern stonework:

And older stonework near the modern stonework:

And segments of old rebuilt stonework

that meet up with

other segments of old rebuilt stonework:

And because I've seen this stonework of undetermined age

elsewhere in the Paugussett Homeland

(with an overlay of horns and eyes for the skeptical to ridicule)

at the first Puritan minister's house in a certain town,

I'm looking for something similar in the Street-view images:

And going back to the first image above,

I certainly did not find something like that,

Just to the right of that old tree:

I was hoping to find something like this:

And then, 

just a little farther along,

there is this flat topped triangular boulder

at the beginning of a segment of what almost everybody seems to call a "stone wall:"

And then there is this one:

A wee bit of LiDAR:

A different road, with another similar but not identicle "gateway:"

Another wee bit of LiDAR:

I'm just getting used to the "new" viewer:

And then there is a little conjecture about some "left-over boulders"

by newer stonework, since I've seen this, as I said earlier:

Odd that there seems to be an apparent eye on this boulder:

Also odd is that another boulder also has another apparent eye,

over by another segment of modern stonework:

The Deer Path “Stone Wall” (Weston CT) Part One:

A Culturally Stacked Row of Stones on a Modern Day Property Line 

   Six months and a couple days past the Valentine’s Day Achille’s Tendon Incident, I found myself traveling down some old turnpikes and trails to have dinner with someone in someplace I’d only been to once before. The town was one of those fancy Connecticut towns where former farmland turned to fancy suburban houses for the wealthy, and of course I was looking at all the various forms of “stone fencing” reflective of those time periods my critics believe I’m unaware of, but as I drive along the old roads, I see the Indigenous Stonework remnants still in place here and there, just like just about everywhere in Connecticut. I glimpse old trail border rows of stones and spot some Stone Prayers (hidden in plain sight as they say), up by some “broken” rough and rocky uplands, a couple Stone Serpents with big stone heads guarding them, up near "The Devil's Den" along the way. 

(I keep looking for a view of them on Google maps and Google Earth where street views are available but the foliage gets in the way and I can't show you a good view of that.)

  Just before we pull into the driveway at our destination, I note that there is a “stone wall property border fence” hugging one edge of the yard…

    The ground was fairly level along this row of stones and I finally got a chance to hobble along the first “stone fence” I’ve been able to "walk like an old man pretending he's not drunk and failing to do so" along in half a year. The next day, at home, I check the aerial photos for 1934 and see the cultural snapshot of farmland that’s mostly “cow and apples” related, with probably tobacco plots and woodlots as additional cash crops. I see that the rows of stacked stones sort of point to present day magnetic north and I know that is commonly assumed to be a sign that somebody used a compass to plot these lines (long lots?) in the post contact period, as they say…

     (But the declination changes over time and the artificial intelligence overview that pops up these days on a web search surprises me by saying that “In 1700, magnetic declination in Woodbury, CT, was approximately 7 to 8 degrees west of true north. This means a compass needle would point 7 to 8 degrees to the left of geographic north.” I don't know what to think about that...)

     Still, these initial observations on a single visit makes me really wonder if I am seeing pre-contact Indigenous Stonework of undetermined age in the Paugussett Homeland or later stonework created in the last 335 or so years after the Puritan/Pequot War when settler colonists were granted land to be turned into private properties and farms practicing European style methods of agriculture. 

Close to the Deer Path Road, there's a large "triangular" boulder in the row of stones that could be or "could have been seen as" an example of a boulder-type of snake head (like hundreds of others in many other places).

Another one, as I "walked the line:"

With an overlay of an eye and a deer horn:

I thought, "Interesting: looks like someone wanted to see if this stone would be a workable piece of stone - as if one were perhaps a flint knapper" as a cultural clue or something. I'm not a flint knapper or a geologist so I don't really know if it's "not good:"

Note the bowl-like stone on top of another stone by but not on or in the "fence:"

Nearby were these broken non-flinty stones!!

Of course when one fnds oneself on Turtle Island, 

One should of course be looking for possible turtles as a cultural clue:

Or a possible snake head with a possible "jewel" on its possible head as well:

An interesting feature: 

And then there is this:

A Segregated Segement trapped inside two "pool fences."

Take a peek at the Google Earth, the old aerial photos,

and the recent CT LiDAR images:

1934:

Something lifted from somewhere:

Take a look at this map from 1975: