WORLD SHIP SOCIETY

After the famous burning of the Quarantine Hospital at Tompkinsville, Staten Island on September 1 and 2, 1858, something had to be done to accommodate the thousands of arriving immigrants with contagious diseases. The historic Quarantine Islands, Hoffman and Swinburne, played a key role in our immigration history for decades. They were the first and sometimes the only stop for immigrants entering the United States.

Due to technical difficulties, we were unable to livestream or record Pat Salmon’s program, “Exploring the Quarantine Islands of New York,” at our September 24, 2023 membership meeting at the National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island. We have, however, obtained a recording of Pat’s program from a previous presentation at the Noble Maritime Collection and we will be showing it via Zoom at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Saturday, October 14, 2023. We encourage everyone who missed the September meeting to join us for this special Zoom presentation.

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