Rogers Island is one of the
Thimble Islands off
Stony Creek Stony Creek may refer to the following waterways or communities:
Waterways Australia
* Stony Creek, a tributary of the Allyn River, in the Hunter region of New South Wales
* Stony Creek, a tributary of the Brogo River, in the South Coast region o ...
, a section of
Branford, Connecticut. Also known as Yon Comis Island, Rogers bears a 27-room
Tudor mansion, with
tennis and
basketball courts and a
caretaker's residence on a estate valued at $15.41 million. It sold in 2003 for $22.3 million to Christine Stoecklein Svenningsen, widow of party goods magnate John Svenningsen. It sold again, most recently, in August 2018 for $21.5 million.
See also
*
Thimble Islands
*
Outer Lands
The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York, comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod an ...
References
*
Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles', "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1
*
'; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", ''
New York Times'', July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10.
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Thimble Islands
Long Island Sound