Fire Island’s state park began as a cholera quarantine in 1892

Evidence

Again and again, Moses returned to the lonely strand, not only to Jones Beach but to Fire Island, where a state park, the only one on Long Island, was located, on the two-hundred-acre grounds of the hotel the state had purchased in 1892 to house the passengers from the cholera-ridden Normannia. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 751

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• CANDY: A nice conversational nugget: Long Island’s only state park before Moses started spring from a quarantine hotel for a cholera ship.