Hog Island destroyed in the 1893 hurricane

Hog Island was the name of two islands near Long Island, New York until the 1890s. One is the present day Barnum Island, which includes the villages of Island Park and Harbor Isle in Nassau County. The other was a mile-long (1600 m) barrier island that existed to the south of Rockaway Beach in Queens. Barnum Island, once used by Native Americans for pig farming, was purchased by Sarah Ann Baldwin Barnum in 1874. Although not related to P.T. Barnum, she bought the land for $13,360 to establish a farm for the poor and then sold it to Queens County. The county later closed the almshouse and sold the land to developers in 1898 for $40,000.