Before Rikers, Blackwell's Was DOC's Island Home

Part 2 of 3


Going to and from prison, hospital, or asylum.

The Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island.


Built in 1796, Robert Blackwell's home
still stands, the island's oldest structure.
Blackwell's
resident
convict
laborers
built a
50-foot tall
Lighthouse
at the
northern
tip with
stone
native
to the
island.


The above are scaled-down versions
of graphics found in a time-line
series of Roosevelt Island
history pages on Website
NYC10044 (www.nyc10044.com),
a service of Main Street WIRE,
the island's community newspaper,
and Unisource2000, Inc. The Roosevelt
Island Historical Society and its president,
Judith Berdy, provided most of the historical
materials used in those pages. We express
appreciation for the above being made available
for Boldest web page use.

To Blackwell's Part 3: The Island in 1872
Description excerpts and scaled-down line-art from the period.
(8 GIFs' combined total: 32K)

To Blackwell's Part 1: Background
Blackwell's island background article from Correction News Centennial Issue.
(5 JPGs' combined total: 75K)

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