Sylvester Manor is one of the island's most important historical landscapes. The estate began in the 17th century as a provisioning plantation tied to the Barbadian sugar trade and worked by enslaved Africans, Indigenous people, and European laborers. Today it is an educational farm and cultural site, where the grounds tell a more complicated story than Shelter Island's quiet roads first suggest.
Sylvester Manor
Historic plantation landscape and educational farm tied to Shelter Island's colonial and enslaved past.