How Governor's Island was used by the U. S. Army during World War I
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How Governor's Island was used by the U. S. Army during World War I
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What the War Did to Governor's Island
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NEARLY everybody who lives in the vicinity of New York
knows Governor's Island; yet it will probably not be recog-
nizable in the view shown above, which was photographed from an
airplane flying over the harbor at height of eight thousand feet.
Governor's Island did not always look like this. Not more than
twenty-five years ago the island was only one third of its present
size. It included only the irregularly
shaped part at the north end of the
present island, easily distinguished in
the picture from the new filled-in part
with its painfully regular outline.
During the war Governor's Island
became an important base for the dis-
tribution of military stores. On the
filled-in part, which comprises fully two
thirds of the island, fifty-four ware-
houses were erected in two parallel
rows. In the aisle between the two
rows a railroad line was built, with
a Y to the loading and unloading pier
near the southern end of the island.
Comparatively few changes were
made in the original, old part of the
island. On this part ‘are the cneient
citadel used as a military prison, the
star-shaped fort, the barracks for
the soldiers of the garrison, the
comfortable officers’ quarters, the
various office buildings of the De-
partment of the East, and the parade
grounds.
The landing-places for the ferry
lines that connect Governor's Tsland
with Manhattan and Brooklyn are
located in_ the northern part of the
island, facing the mouth of the East
River. Cables containing telegraph
and telephone wires put the im-
portant military offices on the island
in direct touch with the outside world.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-10
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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63
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 4, 1919
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