Grannis Island is an uninhabited island in the

Quinnipiac River The Quinnipiac River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 long river in the New England region of the United States, located entirely in the state of Conne ...

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

. It is owned by the New Haven Land Trust as part of the Eugene B. Fargeorge Nature Preserve at Quinnipiac Meadows. The island was inhabited by

Quinnipiac Quinnipiac is the English name for the Eansketambawg (meaning "original people"; ''cf.'' Ojibwe: ''Anishinaabeg'' and Blackfoot: ''Niitsítapi''), a Quiripi-speaking Native American nation of the Algonquian family who inhabited the ''Wampano ...

Native Americans in historic times. Archeological digs have identified dog burials, middens, fire pits and other signs of human habitation.

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Grannis Island History Podcast
by Cold Spring School
Preliminary Report On the Excavations at Grannis Island
(1952)
Findings for Grannis Island
compiled from the research of Jeanne van Orman
Public Paddles to Its Archeological Treasure
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