1909: The Hogs That Were Hunted by the Health Squad on Brooklyn’s Barren Island » BrooklynAshRemoval

Brooklyn Ash Company, Barren Island

Factories like the Barren Island Fertilizing Oil and Guano Company, the New York Sanitary Utilization Company, and the Brooklyn Ash Company (shown here) were the causes of the nauseating and offensive odors which were carried by the wind for long distances in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Brooklyn Ash Company, Barren Island, about 1900

Hog
BarrenIsland1911

This entry was posted on Friday, March 20th, 2015 at 9:03 pm and is filed under . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.