Deer Island (Thousand Islands) of the Island" Building Ruins - Outlook Building Ruins - Stone Cottage Ruins - Yale University Skull & Bones Society Lodge - The island is covered in indigenous trees, made up of mostly White Pine, Black Oak, Hemlock, and Sugar Maple — typical of the Canadian Shield — as is much of the surrounding area. There are several abandoned ruins located throughout the island, now overgrown and barely visible beneath the growth. Deer Island (Thousand Islands) Deer Island is one of the American Thousand Islands. It lies between mainland Canada and United States, within the Saint Lawrence River, in the
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) (Sw.) Willd.), blolly ("Guapira discolor" (Spreng.) Little), black ironwood ("Krugiodendron ferreum"(Vahl) Urb.), twinberry ("Myrcianthes fragrans"(Sw.) McVaugh), white indigo-berry ("Randia aculeata" L.), saffron plumb ("Sideroxylon celastrinum"(Kunth) T. D. Penn.), and wild lime ("Zanthoxylum fagara" (L.) Sarg.). Many of these plants are not found farther north than Brevard County. The state of Florida and Cocoa Beach purchased the islands north of Minutemen Causeway in 1988. Acquisition of the remaining south islands was completed by 2007. These islands are managed as the Thousand Islands Conservation Area by Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. Efforts to acquire the remaining privately held islands began in