Talk:Black Rock Harbor
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This article is a stub. In fact, without more precise information, it is useless to anyone that is not already familiar with this location. This article does not even indicate where Black Rock Harbor is. We know what other locations are near it, but there is no absolute location reference (such as country, province/state, or even the nearest city/town). If it cannot be expanded, then I nominate it for deletion as useless information.
- It appears that this article was capable of being expanded since it now lists the neighborhood, the city, the state, and the sound the harbor is located on. The article also lists the geographic coordinates of (the hyperlink can be followed to obtain maps or satellite photos of the harbor from other web sites). This article still does not mention the country the harbor is in (it is in the United States of America), nor the county (it is in Fairfield County), nor the region of the state (it is in both Southwestern Connecticut as well as the Greater Bridgeport areas), nor the region of the country (it is in both the New York metropolitan area as well as New England), nor the continent it is on (it is in North America), nor the ocean it is on (it is on the Atlantic Ocean). Please feel free to add these other locators to the article instead of nominating it for deletion, but also note that I refrained from doing so to avoid awkward geographic location phrasing and run on sentence structures. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 03:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC) 67.86.73.252 (talk) 04:00, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The Black Rock name
The harbor and the neighborhood names derive from an old (now abandoned?) graphite mine that operated in the area. Can anyone find a reliable reference that backs up this claim so that it can be put into the article with proper citation? Thank you in advance. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 03:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- There are several places within the state of Connecticut that bear the name "Black Rock". The neighborhood and adjacent harbor in the city of Bridgeport is one such. Another is the name of the prominent dark rock on the easern side of New Haven Harbor. During the American Revolution the fort placed there was called "Black Rock Fort", but during the American Civil War the rebuilt fortress was called "Fort Nathan Hale". Please refer to [1] for further information on that Black Rock. An additional Black Rock in Connecticut is Black Rock State Park in Watertown, Connecticut. On the CT web page for that park is mentioned that "fact" and "legend" contributed to the name "Black Rock" and that early settlers thought that they were purchasing graphite mining rights from Mohegan, Paugussett, and Tunxis inhabitants. The web page leaves the impression that the rock was not graphite, merely thought to be graphite by the settlers. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 22:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
