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==History== Previously called [[Hog Island (New York)|Hog Island]], after the feral pigs introduced by early European explorers to the Native Americans, it was later renamed for [[Sarah Ann Barnum|Sarah Ann Baldwin Barnum]]. It was also sometimes called Jekyl Island, after the name of the development company that bought it from the county.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Island|first=Jekyl|date=1922-04-23|title=A 700-Acre Development (Barnum Island)|pages=127|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10742989/a_700acre_development_barnum_island/|access-date=2017-05-04|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1901-07-10|title=Jekyl Island named (headline typo says Jeykl Island)|pages=10|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10750736/jekyl_island_named_headline_typo_says/|access-date=2017-05-04|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}}}</ref> Between 1851 and 1870, Sarah Ann's husband Peter owned large parcels of land on Long Island, though his primary business was a Manhattan clothier. Sarah Ann arranged the purchase of Hog Island for use as a "poor farm" β a self-supporting almshouse, a social innovation for that period, and the island was renamed in her honor.<ref name="Newsday">{{cite news|last1=Amon|first1=Rhoda|title=Life Was No Circus|newspaper=Newsday|url=http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-past418,0,5407611.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235321/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-past418%2C0%2C5407611.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation|archive-date=September 30, 2007}} </ref><ref>[http://www.kpsearch.com/DF/Villageofislandpark-n/history.htm Village of Island Park - History]</ref> Local lore connects the island's name to [[P.T. Barnum]], the circus impresario, but this is incorrect, and likely due to confusion between "PT" and "PC" (Peter C.).<ref name="Newsday" /> The county discontinued the almshouse and sold the island to the Jekyl Island Realty Company in 1898 for $40,000. The company renamed it ''Jekyl Island.'' The island changed hands several times in 1909, Jekyl sold it to a syndicate of developers for $120,000, who in turn sold it for $650,000 in 1911. (There may have been an interim sale in 1910 as well.)<ref>{{Cite news|date=1909-08-31|title=Jekyl Company Dissolves|pages=8|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10751137/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/|access-date=2017-05-04|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1911-05-06|title=Barnum Island Sold|pages=9|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10751323/barnum_island_sold/|access-date=2017-05-04|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{open access}}}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Rather|first=John|date=2001-05-27|title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Island Park; Homey, Near the Water and Within Reach|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-island-park-homey-near-water-within-reach.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527175319/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-island-park-homey-near-water-within-reach.html|archive-date=2015-05-27|access-date=2017-05-05|website=www.webcitation.org}}</ref> Minimal development at that time included construction of several canals, before work was abandoned. One of those canals divides the Harbor Isle section from Island Park. New developers bought the island in 1921, and started building about 10,000 properties built in the 700 acre Island Park section in the center of the island starting in 1922.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> It was in use as a summer resort by 1925.,<ref name=":1" /> Island Park was incorporated as a village in 1926. The rest of the island remains unincorporated, with the western portion known as [[Harbor Isle, New York|Harbor Island]], and the eastern portion retaining the name Barnum Island. However, all three make up the original Hog Island/Barnum Island, and are part of the Town of Hempstead. The entire island was flooded with two to eight feet of water and sewage by [[Hurricane Sandy]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 2014|title=Barnum Island/Oceanside/the Village of Island Park/Harbor Isle NY Rising Community Reconstruction Plan|url=https://stormrecovery.ny.gov/sites/default/files/crp/community/documents/bi-o-vip-hi_final-20140701_high.pdf}}</ref>
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