FREE GUIDE TO SHELTER ISLAND

Download our guide to little-known historic places on Shelter Island!

Our 32-page guide includes fascinating stories about each location, rare historic photographs, an interactive map, and directions—including links to Google maps. 

Learn all about (and how to visit):

  • The site of the very first US production of Peter Pan and how Never Never Land was inspired by Shelter Island.

  • Where you can find (and sit) on the throne of the Grand Sachem of all Long Island.

  • Where Captain Kidd is rumored to have hidden his treasure.

  • One of the most high-tech, Japanese-style bridges commissioned by the Borax King himself.

  • How the devil came to leave a footprint in a boulder on Shelter Island that fits all feet (and brings good luck). 

  • The enormous 840-room luxury hotel boasting the East Coast’s largest dining rooms that was so popular that steam ships ferried people directly there from Manhattan.

  • An inedible fish that was a huge industry on the island and why it was ultimately banned.