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Show Origrin of Name Coney Island Fortune says: "No one knows exactly ex-actly how Coney Island came by it3 name. There are those who claim that it derives from the cone-shaped sand dunes of the original beach. And there are others who bcheve that it is a perversion ot Colman the name of a saiiur oa rlenry Hudson's Hud-son's Hajf-ftiooii, who was killed by Indians in an unexplained brawL But the most heavily supported and most plausible tradition is that the early Dutch settlers found hordes of rabbits scampering across the sand riunes and called it Konijn eiland or Kabbit island, of which Coney was a logical and graduai derivation." |