07.02.2019 News Uncovering the enduring past at Sylvester Manor Under a baking noonday sun last week, Stephen Mrozowski, and his team from the University of Massachusetts, were digging up the soil to unearth Sylvester Manor’s historical secrets.
06.14.2019 Around the Island What’s happening at Sylvester Manor There’s a lot going on at Sylvester Manor this summer including an archeological excavation, wigwam construction and a new exhibit.
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06.03.2014 News Anthropologist returns to Manor for new dig In 1652, Nathaniel Sylvester purchased Shelter Island from the Manhansett tribe, with the intention of producing food to support his family’s lucrative sugar plantation in Barbados. For more than...
03.19.2013 Around the Island Archaeologists at Sylvester Manor Early Monday morning in the bare, bitterly cold woods of Sylvester Manor, two men were up on a hill searching for the past. Stephen Mrozowski stared at the...