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Fire Island has been inhabited since Native American times, serving various human needs.
Overfishing, storms, and cholera have historically threatened Fire Island's environment and communities.
Robert Moses' proposed highway…
The four-masted Canadian 200-foot coal schooner hit a sandbar on February 6, 1922, while en route from Newport News, Virginia, to St. John, New Brunswick, in thick fog. As a result, the ship began to take on water. She ended…
You can find Blue Point Beach about a half-mile west of Fifth Walk in Davis Park. There are only a few houses that are barely visible in the dunes as you stroll along the ocean. The location of the wreck…
Watch Hill, a campground and marina run by the Fire Island National Seashore, is about a mile to the east of Davis Park and was first made accessible to the public in 1967.