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Hog Island, an uninhabited 2,075-acre (8 km 2) island in Lake Michigan, is the fourth largest island in the Beaver Island archipelago. It is owned by the U.S. state of Michigan as part of the Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area and is administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources .
At the time, Hog Island was the largest shipyard in the world, with 50 slipways. In 1918, a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) rail line was built to connect Hog Island with Philadelphia: the 60th Street Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. [1] The first ship, named SS Quistconck for the Lenape name for the site, was christened August 5, 1918, by Edith Bolling ...
A Coast Guard station on Hog Island was later closed. The site where the lighthouse once stood is now nearly a mile out to sea. In 2008, in conjunction with the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, Virginia, filmmaker James Spione directed a documentary, Our Island Home, which featured three of the last surviving people to be born on Hog ...
Roger Warner (1995), Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam, Simon & Schuster. Roger Warner (1998), Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos, Steerforth. Gayle L. Morrison (2013) Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA (Modern Southeast Asia), Texas Tech Univ.
Hog Island sheep, a breed of sheep descended from animals first brought to Virginia's Hog Island in the 18th century Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Hog Island is an American island in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. It lies at the entrance to the harbor of Bristol and is part of the town of Portsmouth. The 60 ft (18 m) tall Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse stands off the south end, warning ships of the dangerous shoals around the island. It has a land area of approximately 0.3 sq mi (78 ha ...
Much of Hog Island disappeared during the storm, leaving the remaining island greatly reduced in area. News reports included a dramatic rescue from the island. [7] After the 1893 storm, some redevelopment occurred on the reduced Hog Island. It was further damaged in an 1896 storm, [8] and believed to have eroded away entirely in 1902. [2]
Hog Island is located in San Joaquin County, California, and is not managed by any reclamation district. [2] [3] Hog Island was separated from Spud Island to its southwest by the dredging of the Hog Island Cut; [4] the two islands are in the San Joaquin River, at a point where McDonald Island lies to the west of the river and Rindge Tract to its east. [5]