Staten Island
Staten Island names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Staten Island an island comprising Richmond co.
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an island comprising Richmond co., N. Y.; bounded on the N. by the Kill von Kull, on the E. by New York Bay and the Narrows, on the S. S. E. by y Raritan Bay and the Lower Bay, and on the W. by Staten Island Bay; is about 13 miles long with an extreme width of 8 miles; area, 58½ square miles. It is generally very hilly. It contains the towns of Castleton, Middletown, Northfield, Southfield, and Westfield, in which are the villages of Tottenville, Port Richmond, Linoleumville, Edgewater, Stapleton, Tompkinsville, and New Brighton. At the Narrows on the E. shore are Fort Wadsworth and a line of water batteries; on the Lower Bay are Midland Beach and South Beach, summer resorts; and on the N. shore is the Sailors' Snug Harbor, a home for infirm and aged seamen. There are excellent ferry and railroad facilities. Pop. (1910) 85,969; (1920) 116,531.,
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
an island five miles south-west of New York City from which it is separated by New York Bay. The island formerly constituted Richmond County. It is now a part of New York City. Area, fifty-eight square miles. Population, about 70,000. There are over 600 manufacturing establishments on the islands as well as important residential suburbs. Steam ferries connect Staten Island with the Jersey shore, Long Island , and New York City proper.
Staten Island an island off the S
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an island off the S. E. coast of Tierra del Fuego, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Le Maire. STATE MILITIA. See MILITARY OR- GANIZATION, UNITED STATES; MILITIA, STATE.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 counted 116,531 people and reached the island only by "excellent ferry and railroad facilities"; the 2020 census counted about 495,000, most of that growth following the opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Brooklyn in 1964. Two of the place names have gone: Linoleumville, named for the factory there, voted to become Travis in 1930, and the borough, called Richmond by both accounts, was officially renamed the Borough of Staten Island in 1975. Fort Wadsworth at the Narrows was closed as an army post in 1994 and is now part of Gateway National Recreation Area, while the Fresh Kills landfill, which opened in 1948 and became the city's dumping ground, shut in 2001 and is being turned into a public park. The other Staten Island, off Tierra del Fuego, is now generally called Isla de los Estados and remains all but uninhabited apart from an Argentine naval station.
Written for this edition, 2026.