Bear Island (Connecticut)
- Bear Island (Connecticut)
Bear Island is one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is home to a former granite quarry, which exported high-quality pink granite to such constructions as the Lincoln Memorial, Grant's Tomb and the base of the Statue of Liberty. The famous Stony Creek granite is still quarried in Stony Creek.
Bear Island was originally called "Goat Island" by locals up to the 1890s, referring to goat herds kept there for milk by its community of Swedish immigrant quarry workers.
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*" [http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=15976763&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8 Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles] ", "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
*" [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/realestate/30wczo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|Living Half a Mile Off the Coast] "; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", "New York Times", July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.
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