![]() That means anyone digging a trench across the peninsula would risk draining the water table into those sea-level outlets. Both bodies of water are at sea level, but the land between reaches up to six feet in elevation. Though much of the canal has been lost to development today, in its heyday it would have stretched a little less than a mile across most of Fort Morgan Peninsula, from Oyster Bay in the north to Little Lagoon in the south. The canal ran between Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon in Alabama. “The archaeology is so fantastic in this region, it has such an interesting history, and it speaks to the sophistication and ingenuity of Indigenous societies in the Southeast who have contemporary descendant communities." “They were able to engineer these landscapes that allowed them to flourish for millennia,” he adds. “I think one of the things that underscores is the incredibly engineered landscape that exists among the Native peoples of the Gulf Coast,” says Victor Thompson, director of the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia, who was not involved in the study but reviewed it. In a report published online in June in the Journal of Field Archaeology, the researchers described how the canal would have connected the Gulf of Mexico with more protected bays, allowing better access between coastal fishing areas and trade routes to the rest of the Southeast. They confirmed that this long-overlooked trench is a feat of engineering and a rare archaeological find: a canal, nearly a mile long, built for canoe travel 1,400 years ago by the Native Americans who navigated the region’s waterways. Thanks to King’s urging, Waselkov finally began an investigation of the site in 2017 with a team of volunteer archaeologists. But when I saw it, I realized it’s something different.” “There are lots of features like that in the swampy areas around Mobile, from logging, and from rice cultivation-there are all kinds of reasons you might have big ditches. “It took me forever to go out there and take a look,” says Waselkov. Gregory Waselkov, a now-retired anthropologist at the university, figured the ditch was probably an antebellum construction built by enslaved laborers. On visits to the archaeology museum at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, King would encourage researchers to examine it. One resident, Harry King, who had been exploring the back bays of the region, became fascinated with the remnants of this large trench, about 30 feet wide and 3 feet deep. Petition to cease actions to change the name of the community of Oyster Bay to “South Bon Secour” or any other name and also cease actions to change the name of Plash Island to Hog Island or Bon Secour Island or any other name.In the beachside resort town of Gulf Shores, Alabama, locals had often referred to an odd feature in the landscape as “Indian ditch.” As far back as the 1820s, a handful of antiquarians and United States Army engineers recognized it as a feature that predated white settlers, but it hadn’t received enough scholarly attention to explain its history and function. And to cease actions for signage to designate the name changes. This Petition is brought by many property owners and many life-long residents of the Oyster Bay/Plash Island community. We feel that these name changes would be detrimental to our property values and have a negative impact on our community image and cause confusion in maps, GPS, and community identity. Oyster Bay Community name change to “South Bon Secour” or any other name. Our community is known as Oyster Bay by both locals and visitors, alike. We are happy to have our own identity and consider it a positive. Making a name change would serve no purpose. ![]() “South” Bon Secour is a new designation and the names “North” and “South” Bon Secour were not used. Our community, is a 20 minute drive from Bon Secour. The community of Oyster Bay has never had a Bon Secour address. It has a Gulf Shores address and many of the properties were voluntarily annexed into Gulf Shores years ago. ![]() Our city water and sewer and also the police and fire protection are administered through the City of Gulf Shores. The actual town of Bon Secour, AL was always a larger more established community. It had its own school, Post Office, zip code, many churches, grocery stores and gas stations. The name of the only church was changed to Oyster Bay Baptist Church from Bon Secour in 1972. This resolved a lot of confusion between the two communities and the name, Oyster Bay, became more widely used. Previously, guest speakers and visitors would drive around lost in Bon Secour instead of coming to Oyster Bay.
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