Island Archives: Looking over the Island
Jan 29, 2013 7:43 pm
We’ve been having lots of fun updating you on what is underway and coming up on Governors Island. As a change of pace, we thought we’d have a visit from Island Archives and share a great panorama of the island from 1938. The image is in three parts so stay tuned for further views. Here, you can see the southern end of the historic district with views of Liggett Hall and down onto the fairly empty landfill. Lots of early WWI storage facilities were already torn down while the building boom of the early Coast Guard years was still three decades away. In the foreground you can see a row of barracks and a playground long gone. [caption id=“attachment_5991” align=“aligncenter” width=“468”]
Photo Courtesy of the National Park Service.Annotation on the image are from the original.[/caption]