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Hunter Island (Bronx)

  • ... that Hunter Island in New York City, now part of a park, formerly contained a large Georgian-style mansion occupied by the Hunter family? Source: Seitz & Miller, pp. 130-132.
    • ALT1:... that Hunter Island, in New York City, had a mansion with an art collection of over 400 works from artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, and da Vinci? Source: Seitz & Miller, pp. 131.
    • ALT2:... that an island in New York City used to be a summer campsite, with up to a half-million visitors by 1917? Source: NYC Parks. "By the turn of the 20th century, Hunter Island, at the north end of the current site, was a popular campsite for summer visitors. [...] by 1917, seasonal attendance had risen to half a million users."

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 13:47, 25 September 2018 (UTC).