Hen Island is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 on Lake Erie

Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

 in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. There are three smaller islands, called "chickens," surrounding the island; their names are Big Chicken Island

Big Chicken Island

Big Chicken Island is a small, flat, treeless island in Ontario located within Lake Erie. Although it is called an island, it is actually a reef. It is one of the three "chickens" that surround Hen Island.-External links:*...

, Chick Island

Chick Island

Chick Island is a small, flat, treeless island in Ontario located within Lake Erie. Although it is called an island, it is actually a reef. It is one of the three "chickens" that surround Hen Island....

, and Little Chicken Island

Little Chicken Island

Little Chicken Island is a small, flat, treeless island in Ontario located within Lake Erie. Although it is called an island, it is actually a reef. It is one of the three "chickens" that surround Hen Island....

.

Quinnebog Club

This small wooded Island is home to the Quinnebog Club, which owns the island. The Club was built in 1898, still exists and is active. The main clubhouse holds the dining hall and kitchen facilities as well as staff bedrooms on the second floor.

"The Pete Nowak lodge is where club members relax after a hard day of fishing. The lodge features a bar, at the west end of the building as well as an antique pool table and personal members' lockers that line the inside walls of the lodge. If you were to look in the guest registry you would find the names of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 and Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

who visited Hen Island during the history of the island." (Perhaps Abraham Lincoln visited the island, and maybe there was a structure there that housed a guest registry that survives until today. He would not have visited The Club in any capacity other than as a ghost if it was built in 1898, since his death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth preceded that by more than 30 years.)

The Club may have bought the island from either a certain "Colonel Blanchard", the first resident of the island , or Rudolph Siefield, an Ohio businessman.