Port Washington to Mamaroneck

We took a tour of the shoreline as we worked our way back to Mamaroneck. We left Manhasset Bay, rounded Stepping Stones Light, entered Little Neck Bay, paralleled the Throngs Neck Bridge, passed through the gap between City Island and Hart Island then north to Larchmont and eventually Mamaroneck. Like Manhasset Bay, Little Neck Bay is lined with multimillion dollar homes and dozens of boats on moorings. City Island is surrounded by a forest of sailboat mast as hundreds of boats are moored there.

Stepping Stones Light

We Googled the various islands to learn of their history.  Hart Island across from City Island is uninhabited today and has a very interesting history. Highlights include it being a prisoner of war camp and hospital during the American Civil War, a prison and juvenile detention center, a quarantine island and burial ground for the indigent. Over a million bodies have been buried on the island and approximately 1,500 are buried every month in mass graves. The few remaining abandoned buildings on the island are being torn down to make room for more graves. This is not a big island and it was amazing that so many could have been buried there. Grave sites are used again after 25 years have passed and the bodies previously buried have decomposed. We left before the ghosts came out. Spooky.