sentences:  In 1878, Starin purchased a series of small islands off the coast of New Rochelle, New York for his country estate and eventually turned the property into an amusement park called Starin's Glen Island.He maintained the islands as a select summer resort, operating 12 steamboats to and from New York City.The islands were so popular that hundreds of thousands of visitors were brought every season to the attractions which included a zoo, a natural history museum, a railway, a German beer garden (around the castle-like structure which still stands today), a bathing beach, and a Chinese pagoda.