Ellis Island the region. The oyster beds remained a major source of food for nearly three centuries. Landfilling to build the railyards of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey eventually obliterated the oyster beds, engulfed one island, and brought the shoreline much closer to the others. During the colonial period, Little Oyster Island was known as Dyre's, then Bucking Island. In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island. It was acquired by Samuel Ellis, a colonial New Yorker and merchant possibly from Wales, around
Hillsborough River (Prince Edward Island) the railway bridge between Charlottetown and Southport in 1962 and was modernized and expanded in 1995. Additional highway bridges cross the river at Mount Stewart and at several points upstream from Mount Stewart. The river hosts a variety of recreational activities as well as quahog and oyster fisheries. The river suffers from high nitrate levels and silt run off from over-farming and excess riparian zone development. Hillsborough River (Prince Edward Island) The Hillsborough River, also known as the East River, is a Canadian river in northeastern Queens County, Prince Edward Island. After the Siege of Louisbourg (1745) during King George's