Posts Tagged:rough_riders

R&D at NYOSL, on This Week’s TBT!

R&D at NYOSL, on This Week’s TBT!

The shore at Fort Pond Bay is often so sleepy it can be difficult to imagine how awake it’s been historically. Thousands of veterans of the Spanish-American War – Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” – disembarked from transport ships in Fort Pond Bay in 1898 to quarantine and recuperate at Camp Wikoff, whose entire infrastructure had… Read more »