Deer Island

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Skull and Bones Society Retreat
An island located in the thousand islands region of the St. Lawrence River. There are numerous ruins of 1800's buildings. The Skull and Bones Secret Society of Yale University now owns the entire island.

History, photos: www.newruins.com/Discovery_di/index.html

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From www.skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skullandbones.htm :
SKULL and Bones doesn't own an opulent island hideaway like the one depicted in The Skulls. It does own an island on the St. Lawrence River -- Deer Island, in Alexandria Bay. The forty-acre retreat is intended to give Bonesmen an opportunity to "get together and rekindle old friendships." A century ago the island sported tennis courts and its softball fields were surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes. Catboats waited on the lake. Stewards catered elegant meals. But although each new Skull and Bones member still visits Deer Island, the place leaves something to be desired. "Now it is just a bunch of burned-out stone buildings," a patriarch sighs. "It's basically ruins." Another Bonesman says that to call the island "rustic" would be to glorify it. "It's a dump, but it's beautiful."
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Island_(Thousand_Islands)
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Coordinates:   44°21'42"N   75°54'24"W

Comments

  • Owned by the Order of Skull and Bones, a secret student society formed at Yale University. The Bush presidents are ''Bonesmen.''
  • We Don't Know, Deer Island.
  • Actually We Don't Know.
  • i have been there-there isn't much to see. I took pictures and to be honest, it was semi-disappointing but it looks like there used to be elaborate structures
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