The Knights of Hog Island
The Knights of Hog Island

Author: Joyce Fairchild Almeida

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1649571518

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The Knights of Hog Island By: Joyce Fairchild Almeida Step into another world and a different time to discover the origins of Hog Island, an island off the coast of Rhode Island, the families who live there, and the community that grew from its founding.

Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History
Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History

Author: Miriam Sicherman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467144312

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Unbeknownst to most of the city's inhabitants, a rural community of garbage workers once existed on a now-vanished island in New York City. Barren Island was a swampy speck in Jamaica Bay where a motley group of new immigrants and African Americans quietly processed mountains of garbage and dead animals starting in the 1850s. They turned the waste into useful industrial products until their eviction by Robert Moses in 1936, all in the name of progress. Barren Islanders built businesses, fought fires, demanded a public school and worshipped at churches as they created a quintessentially American community from scratch. Author Miriam Sicherman tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost in the annals of New York City history.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 1862

ISBN-13:

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