This local island was known as Lesser Island (Minnissais) and Great Oyster Island. It was named after Isaac Bedloe in 1667 and retained that name for 290 years. It was the city's first quarantine station during a smallpox epidemic and was used as a refuge for Loyalists on the eve of the Revolution. It also served as a recruitment camp and ordnance depot during the Civil War.
Name that island.
Answer after the jump.
LIBERTY ISLAND
(The government donated it to the Liberty Project in 1877. Bedloe's Island became Liberty Island in 1957.)
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