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The Original Shelter Rock
During the Ice Age a glacial movement tumbled this enormous monument-forty feet long, twenty feet wide, ten to seventeen feet above ground, a total of twenty-four hundred cubic feet and eighteen hundred tons-across Long Island Sound and onto the shore at a point on land 40 degrees North 47 minutes latitude, 73 degrees West 42 minutes longitude. (Shelter Rock is located on the right side of Shelter Rock Road traveling south from Northern Boulevard. Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell measured the rock in 1816 with the assistance of West Point cadets.) It remains a landmark, and is one of the largest boulders on Long Island. |
