Nantucket Sound Found Eligible for Listing in National Register
National Park Service News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 4, 2010
Contact: David Barna (202) 208-6843
Nantucket Sound Found Eligible for Listing in National Register
Washington, DC – The National Park Service today announced the decision by its Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places that Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts is eligible for listing in the National Register for its significance as a traditional cultural property and as an historic and archeological property.
The Keeper made a determination that the Sound is eligible based on:
* its associations with the ancient and historic period Native
American exploration and settlement of Cape Cod and the Islands, and
with the central events of the Wampanoags’ stories of Maushop and
Squant/Squannit;
* its association with Maushop and Squant/Squannit;
* as a significant and distinguishable entity integral to Wampanoags’
folklife traditions, practices, cosmology, religion, material
culture, foodways, mentoring, and narratives; and,
* for the important cultural, historical, and scientific information
it has yielded and/or may be likely to yield through archeology,
history, and ethnography about access to resources, patterns of
settlement, mobility, and land use prior to and after 6,000 years ago
as a result of the inundation of the Sound. It is also important for
the significant information it provides and can provide about the
cultural practices and traditions of the Native Americans of Cape Cod
and the Islands in relationship with other peoples since ancient
times.
