![]() Yale’s biology department owns Horse Island set aside for ecological studies.ĭeer and other wildlife swim back and forth, from island to island in summer. Skull and Bones, the Yale University secret society founded in 1832, owns Deer Island where there are three cottages for members. Godfrey never showed up,” said Cindy Chaltain of the Thousand Islands International Council. It would bring much more than that now.”Ī Canadian chamber of commerce years ago notified Arthur Godfrey he would be given unoccupied Florence Island as a gift if he would come to the island and sing “Florence of the St. “We sold the island during a period when the economy was depressed and received less than $100,000 for it. ![]() I was always afraid I would fall off the boat. “My husband and I kept it two years, but, you know, we’re both older, and it was impractical for us. “Paradise is a beautiful island with a lovely view,” Clarke said. Lily Clarke, 71, won 180-foot-long, 70-foot-wide Paradise Island complete with a new home, dock and $12,000 boat with a $2 raffle ticket from the Ongwanada Hospital in Kingston, Ont. Telephone and electricity is provided by underwater cables. They are boarded up the rest of the year. The vast majority of the houses on the islands are second homes used only during the summer. Honeywell has individual islands, with one home and a dock, for sale ranging from $250,000 to $800,000. People like the idea of having their own private shoal to tie up a boat and hold picnics.” There are about 100 shoals in the thousand islands group. Shoals sell for as much as $8,000 to $10,000 each. Real estate broker Natalie Honeywell in Alexandria Bay on the New York mainland noted that there are always islands and shoals for sale: “Shoals are little more than huge rocks that are under water part of the year. The school board provides room and board for them to stay with friends,” said Cuppernal. So from December to April our kids live on the mainland near school and come home weekends, weather permitting. “During the winter, the weather gets snotty, 45 below zero, blizzards. It’s two miles from the island to the mainland. But it closed when enrollment fell this fall to two. Until last year Grindstone Island, with 50 year-round residents, had the only one-room schoolhouse in New York. They have eight children who range in age from 10 to 22. “We came here because we didn’t want our kids growing up on the streets with drug problems,” explained Cuppernal. Larry Cuppernal and his wife, Catherine, moved to Grindstone, one of the larger islands, 13 years ago. Lawrence Seaway is not open December to April when the river is full of ice. Quackenbush commutes to work by motorboat except during the winter months when he walks across the frozen river the quarter mile to the mainland. Sometimes a ship will blast a long and two shorts-which means hello-as they go by the house.” “My two sons, Pieter, 5, and Tony, 9, amuse themselves by keeping a log with the names of the ships, where they’re from, when they went by. “We can almost reach out and shake hands with the captain on the bridge of the large ships, sailing from England, France, Italy, Russia, China, from all over the world to Great Lakes ports,” said Quackenbush. Ships from all over the world sail within a few feet of Quackenbush’s shoreline home. Paul Quackenbush, 53, has the only house on Friendly Island where he lives year-round. Lone Tree Island has a house and one tree. ![]() Just-Room-Enough is one of the the tiny one-house islands. More than 300 of the islands are less than an acre, big enough only for a home and a dock. ![]() Boldt died,” Sanford said.Īt the turn of the century, many of America’s wealthiest families had mansions on these islands, including the Kelloggs of breakfast food fame, the Heinemans of Buster Brown Shoes, George Pullman of railroads sleeping cars. “We expect it will take at least another $5 million to bring the castle, the grounds and the other structures on Heart Island to the condition they were in when Mrs. Shane Sanford, who manages the island, reports that $4 million have been spent in stabilizing and restoring the castle the past three years. The castle slowly deteriorated over the years until 1978 when the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, operators of the 8-mile international bridge connecting the United States and Canada and crossing over to the islands, purchased Heart Island and the castle.įor $3 the bridge authority allows visitors to tour the Heart Island grounds and see the inside of the castle. ![]()
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