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In the early 1960s, developers sold 5,850 lots for a private resort on Assateague Island; one five-day storm wiped out nearly every house and helped turn it into a national seashore

August 22, 2026
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The island was protected as a National Seashore in 1965. (Picture: NPS) Assateague Island National Seashore…

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After a 1962 storm battered Fire Island, Robert Moses proposed a highway along the New York barrier island; residents fought it and 17 private communities now sit inside a national seashore

August 21, 2026
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Robert Moses at the placing of final steel, Fire Island Inlet Bridge 1962. A powerful nor’easter…