A stroll through Governors Island
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- July
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For today I wrote about Governors and Davids islands and looked at how one was being successfully preserved and the other had not.
According to the official Web site for Governors Island, Native Americans called it Pagganck or Nut Island after its hickory, oak and chestnut trees. In June 1637, Wouter Van Twiller, the representative of Holland bought for his private use for two ax heads, a string of beads, and a handful of nails. The Dutch Government was having none of it and confiscated the island a year later.
Here are some photos I took of Governors Island earlier this month:
A plaque to John Peter Zenger. The island was used to quarantine settlers from the Palatinate region of Germany, Zenger among them. He went on to win a libel case that established the freedom of press in the colonies.
One of the officers’ houses in Nolan Park. The color was called “French yellow.”
Liggett Hall, designed by McKim, Mead & White and the first Army structure to house all of the facilities for an entire regiment.
One of the houses in Colonels’ Row.
A view of Lower Manhattan.
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