| This place was deleted, it will be removed from all search engines in few weeks. Approximate Location of Hog Island
The New York City version of Atlantis, Hog Island was a barrier island off the coast of the Rockaway Peninsula and Long Beach. It was a high class resort community popular with the extraordinarily wealthy of the Gilded Age. This all came to an end on August 23, 1893 when a category-2 hurricane swept through the area with such force that the entire island was washed away only to be rediscovered in 1992 when artifacts washed up on Rockaway Beach following a strong nor'easter. In recorded history, this is the only instance of a hurricane completely erasing an island.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_Island_(New_York)Category: island atlantis hurricane hog
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28 months ago getcrunk |
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Everything I've been able to find online says it was off the southern coast of the Rockaway Peninsula (http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=13427).
That doesn't mean it definitely was, though...if you know of any other source of info on this place pass it along! |
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28 months ago Erase_The_Waste |
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-On wikipedia the 1873 map shows that hog island was behind of Long Beach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1873hogInlet.jpg
-On another site it too backs up this claim.
http://www.ilovelbny.com/LongBeachMaps.html
- Ive also heard that it was off the Rockaways and Coney Island too. I dont know what to believe. |
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28 months ago getcrunk |
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The Hog Island shown as being between mainland Nassau County and Long Beach is what is now known as Island Park/Barnum Island. It states that on the Wikipedia Hog Island page, but doesn't differentiate between the two of them well. Also, the Wikipedia "Rockaways" page, says it was "a few miles east of Breezy Point".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockaway%2C_Queens
In any case, this location definitely isn't exact, but from what I've read I'm fairly certain it was at the very least located to the south of the Rockaway peninsula. |
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28 months ago getcrunk |
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This is actually the most exact location I've found so far...
http://www.rockawave.com/News/2004/0102/Columnists/041.html
"Take, for example, the famous sand bar that formerly existed off the shore of Far Rockaway, back in the middle to late 1800’s. The bar made its first appearance in 1861, near Beach 37th Street. Within a few years it grew large enough to support hotels, bathhouses, and even its own official name — Hog Island. Hog Island had a long life as sand bars go. It’s history is beautifully recalled in a Wave article of January 31, 1987 by Rockaway historian, Emil R. Lucev, worthy enough for a timely reprint. Emil informs us that Hog Island served as an offshore recreation center until a series of severe storms, during the winter of 1893, destroyed it forever, that is, except for bits and pieces of old Hog Island wreckage that are occasionally washed up on today’s Far Rockaway’s beaches."
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