Burlington Island

In 1626, Peter Minuit decided to shift the base of operations to Manhattan Island, and move the trading post further south to what became Fort Nassau, one of many to be built along the river within the European colonies of New Netherland and New Sweden.

Fires destroyed the amusement park in the 1920s and 1930s, and the southern part of the island was sold to a series of private owners whose ambitious development plans failed to materialize.

[4] On Saturday, 13 June 1925, United States Navy Lieutenant Frank E. White, developed engine trouble in his De Havilland DH.4B fighter while flying to Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York.

[9] Summer 1999[10] director Andrew Repasky McElhinney shot exteriors on Burlington Island for his second feature[11] as a writer/director, the period art-horror film, A Chronicle of Corpses, starring Marj Dusay, Kevin Mitchel Martin, Oliver Wyman, David Semonin, Margot White and Ryan Foley.

[12] A Chronicle of Corpses was praised by Dave Kehr of The New York Times as belonging "to the small but significant tradition of outsider art in American movies - films like Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls or George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead - that reflect powerful personalities formed outside any academic or professional tradition.”[13] The original camera negative of A Chronicle of Corpses is in the permanent collection of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art (New York) along with other movies directed by McElhinney.