In 1803, Newbury Davenport purchased the island to protect the view from his manor on Davenport Neck, a peninsula of land 50 yards across the open water from the site.

Later, the island came into the ownership of Samuel Wooley, and accordingly, the island was long called 'Wooley's Island'. In 1784, it was sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures. Cromwell's active participation in events leading up to the American Revolution, in opposition to the Patriot cause, brought him disaster, and his property was confiscated. In 1760, the new owner presented the island to his son Andre Barhy, who sold it to his brother-in-law, George Cromwell, six years later. The first owner of record was John or Johannes Berhuyt or Barhyt, who purchased Jacob Theroulde's farm in 1701. Until the late 1700s, the area was inhabited to some extent by the Siwanoy Indians of Algonquin stock. The site is currently occupied by the county's Glen Island Park, which includes remnants of some of the historic structures. Although now one island, the site originally consisted of one large main island in close proximity to at least four smaller nearby islands, a number of rocky outcroppings, low-lying flats, and salt marshes.

The island is situated between Davids, Neptune, and Travers islands in New Rochelle, and Hunter Island in nearby Pelham Bay Park, in the Bronx borough of New York City. The resort was located on Glen Island, in New Rochelle's Lower Harbor, just off of Long Island Sound. The extreme popularity of the park resulted in a building boom in New Rochelle in the first decade of the twentieth century. The park's original design exhibited the five cultures of the western world on individual islands linked together with piers and causeways. Starin's resort, referred to as 'America's pleasure grounds' was the first theme park in the country. Starin's Glen Island was a summer resort in the community of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York, developed by shipping magnate and U.S.

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