scenic landmark in the Delaware River. Burlington Island Lake is a large artificial lagoon within the island.

Fort Wilhelmus

The indigenous Lenape population called the island Matennecunk. In 1624, Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, the first Director of New Netherland planted an initial settlement of two families and eight men on what they called Hooghe Eylandt (High Island), making it the site of the first

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