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Abandoned Island's History Includes Designation as National Cemetery

By Pat Bradley

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-733916.mp3

Plattsburgh, NY – Forty-two acre Crab Island, about two miles off-shore of Plattsburgh in Lake Champlain, is notorious for its poison ivy. The island is only accessible by boat and the overgrowth makes it difficult to walk around. But Crab Island has had an intriguing role in the region's history. Few people realize that it is a National Military Cemetery with its soil hiding the graves of at least 150 veterans from an early war of this nation. WAMC's North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley has more.