The Quarantine Islands: Hoffman and Swinburne

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Join us The Quarantine Islands, a virtual lecture by historian Patricia Salmon. Hoffman and Swinburne Islands are viewable from the shoreline of South Beach or from the eastbound lane of the Verrazanno-Narrows Bridge. But their history is not commonly known. They were not always islands. In fact, they were simple sandbars during the mid-1800s. After the famous burning of the Quarantine Hospital at Tompkinsville on September 1 and 2, 1858, something had to be done to accommodate the thousands of arriving immigrants with contagious diseases.

This program originally aired on March 24, 2022.

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