Who Owns Horse Island?

Horse Island, at 17 acres (69,000 m²), is the largest of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is owned by Yale University and is maintained as an ecological laboratory by Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Who owns Horse Island Connecticut? the Peabody MuseumHorse Read more…

How Was Dead Horse Bay Created?

From the 1850s until the 1930s, the carcasses of dead horses and other animals from New York City streets were used to manufacture glue, fertilizer and other products at the site. The chopped-up, boiled bones were later dumped into the water. Is Glass Bottle Beach closed? New York’s ‘Glass Bottle Read more…