Jones Island

Jones Island may refer to:

  • Jones Island, Milwaukee
  • Jones Island (Montana), an island in the Missouri River
  • Jones Beach Island, an island in New York
  • Jones Island, WA, an uninhabited island in the San Juan Islands.

Famous quotes containing the words jones and/or island:

    “Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
    Casey Jones, throttle in his hand,
    Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
    Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.”
    —Unknown. Casey Jones (l. 49–52)

    “I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)