Pat,
You've GOT to be flippin' kidding me!
You accuse me of being disengenous while looking at a Land Plan that has a freaking North Highway drawn right between Shinnecock and NGLA, about right behind today's 9th green at NGLA, and across the 2nd green at Shinnecock, and you tell me I'm being disengenous.
Please point out for us when and where that highway ever existed that ran through the golf courses.
For that matter you don't have any idea if what is drawn as the "North Highway" on that 1907 plan was actual or proposed, do you?
Yet, for pages you argued that CBM would never have selected the land below Cold Spring Bay because the North Highway ran through it.
At best, the "North Highway" was a dirt road, as Phil mentioned. The map I posted from 1914 was a HIGHWAY map, and YES, the only road deemed a HIGHWAY at that date was the one BELOW the LIRR.
Here you have a land developer who just bought 2700 freaking acres of property to develop, you have a consortium that CBM put together of millionaires and captains of industry in America who are looking to build a golf course playground retreat, and you are seriously and genuinely telling us that they're plans are hosed because of a freaking dirt road??!?! They couldn't move it, or re-route it for a mile or so closer to the tracks perhaps? All of their dreams and plans get washed down the drain because of that damn dirt-road that isn't even included on a map of highways on Long Island in 1914!
And you tell me I'm being disengenous??
We have a self-professed expert on early Shinnecock on this thread, who for weeks now has been telling us that his October 1906 articles MUST have been talking about the land CBM found on Sebonac Neck, because it mentions that Shinnecock Golf Club borders adjacent on the East, even though the western border of the supposed 250 acre purchase is ONE AND A HALF MILES AWAY from today's NGLA western border.
Now, suddenly, it takes me to point out that NO PART OF 1906 SHINNECOCK EXTENDED NORTH ENOUGH TO EVEN REACH SEBONACK NECK OR ANY PART OF NGLA.
How then could it be predomoninatly EAST when ALL PARTS of the course lay SOUTH of ALL PARTS OF NGLA AND SEBONAC NECK?!?!
WHY DID IT TAKE ME TO DISCOVER THAT FACT and POST IT HERE??
It's sad Pat...you've lost all ability to be objective, balanced, and fair on this issue.