All eras
Calumet & Whitehead Avenues
Layered travel corridors
[HC]High-Confidence Inference43.64345° N, 70.20105° WSurveyed position
Position — Named on the 1885 plan and the 1888 map, and still in use. Roads are the island's most continuous feature.
No photograph of this place is held in the archive. Nothing is shown here rather than an approximation.
Historical significance
Wabanaki travel corridors likely influenced colonial paths, which in turn shaped resort roads and military service routes. Dropped objects accumulate along the shoulders.
On the ground
- Sunken road cuts still legible under leaf litter.
- Stone walls parallel to grade indicate long use.
Open research questions
- 1.Which road segments are pre-military?
- 2.Where does an old trail imply an even older one beneath?
Where to walk next
Fort Levett — Battery Foote
470 m · ~6 minEndicott-era coastal artillery
Ottawa House Grounds
490 m · ~6 minGilded-Age summer resort
Distances are straight-line from recorded coordinates. Island roads curve, so allow more time than the estimate.
How we know
Continue the trail
- 01Stand at Ottawa House GroundsPlace · Ottawa House Grounds — Resort · 1858–1917
- 02Look at the evidence: Architectural drawing, house on Cushing IslandSource · Architectural drawing, house on Cushing Island — c. 1883 · Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society
- 03Open the case file: Understanding Battery FooteCase file · Understanding Battery Foote — Case file III
- 04Read the whole layer: The Summer IslandLayer · The Summer Island — Layer 03 · 1858 → 1917
- 05Stand at Fort Levett — Battery FootePlace · Fort Levett — Battery Foote — Military · 1898–1945