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Wards Island Park remained underused, and The New York Times said in 1963 that the park was generally neglected and full of garbage. [214] Work on a 200-bed hospital for mentally disabled children on Wards Island began in 1965, [215] and New York governor Nelson Rockefeller announced a mental hospital complex on that island in 1967. [216]
During the later decades of the Martin period (the late 1980s and early 1990s), Dark Island was listed for sale. Advertisements appeared in high-end real estate magazines such as Unique Homes with suggestions that it be a "private residence, corporate retreat or hunting lodge." Interest came from as far as Japan, but the property remained ...
Halfway Houses is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in England. [1] It derives its name from the pub in the village centre, with the same name, which was so named because it is halfway between Minster and Sheerness, before the coastal road was built along the north coast connecting Minster and Sheerness.
Welcome sign. Sheppey is separated from the mainland by a channel called the Swale.In concert with the Wantsum Channel that once separated the Isle of Thanet from mainland Britain to the east (before it silted over in the late Middle Ages), and Yantlet Creek at the Isle of Grain to the west, it was occasionally used in ancient times by ships navigating to and from ports such as Chatham and ...
Caleb T. Ward Mansion is a historic home located at 141 Nixon Avenue on Ward Hill, Staten Island, New York. Caleb Tompkins Ward built the mansion in 1835 with the help of architect George B. David, who built the mansion out of stucco and brick in an imposing Greek Revival style. Ward acquired the land for his mansion in 1826, after his uncle ...
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond County, New York. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Staten Island , or in other words in Richmond County , New York , United States .
Harty is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Leysdown, on the Isle of Sheppey, in the Swale district, in the county of Kent, England. It consists of a few cottages, a church and a public house, the Ferry Inn (a Grade II listed building [1]). [2]
Sheppey College, in Sheerness, is a branch of Canterbury College that provides a range of further education courses. [68] On 1 September 2009, Cheyne Middle school and Minster College merged to become The Isle of Sheppey Academy (now Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey). Danley Middle school closed and St George's Middle School changed into a primary ...