Liberty Island - New York, NY - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

The plaque says, "This twelve acre speck of land has had many names. In the pre-Columbian era it was known as Minnissais, or Lesser Island, by the native Canarise Indian tribe. To the later European colonists, it was known as Love, Kennedy, Great Oyster, Corporation, and Bedloe's Island.

The island has also had many varied uses over the years: prehistoric indian site, farm, summer house, quarantine station, Tory refuge, French Naval hospital, dump, gallows, military prison and eventually, a military fortification named Fort Wood.

In 1924, Fort Wood and the Statue of Liberty were proclaimed a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge. Since 1937, the entire island has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. In 1956, the island's name was changed one more time from Bedloe's Island to Liberty Island."

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