Governors Island (disambiguation)

Governors Island is a small island in New York City.

Governors Island or Governor's Island may also refer to:

  • Governor's Island, Bermuda
  • Governors Island (Prince Edward Island), Canada
  • Governors Island (Massachusetts), in Boston Harbor
  • Governors Island (Lake Winnipesaukee), New Hampshire
  • Governor's Island, in Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire)
  • Governors Island (North Carolina), in Lake Norman
  • Governors Island (Bryson City, North Carolina), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Swain County, North Carolina

Famous quotes containing the words governors and/or island:

    I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)