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In the 1890s, the federal government intended to build a mortar battery on the eastern end of the island, purchasing one third of Plumb Island's 150 acres. [2] But "Reservation Beach" was unsuitable to the task due to the quicksand-like soil, so squatters moved in, selling liquor and cigars free of any excise tax. [5]
Plum Island is referred to in Season 4, Episode 4, "Dawn of the Med", of the show Royal Pains. Plum Island is the location of a deadly government conspiracy in the 2014 novel, The Montauk Monster by Hunter Shea. Plum Island is the location of the Advanced Neurotechnologies Laboratory (ANS) in the 2016 novel Game Changer by Douglas E. Richards.
Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, United States. This strategic position afforded it a commanding view over the Atlantic entrance to the commercially vital Long Island Sound. It was established in 1897 and used intermittently through the end of World War II.
The refuge includes the mouth of the Parker River, which drains the mainland on the other side of Plum Island Sound. The refuge also includes the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, an 8-mile (13 km) long barrier island off the coast of mainland Essex County. The southern tip of the island, however, belongs to Sandy Point State Reservation ...
The "Montauk Monster" was an animal carcass that washed ashore on a beach near the business district of Montauk, New York, in July 2008. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The identity of the creature and the veracity of stories surrounding it have been the subject of controversy and speculation.
Jul. 5—NEWBURYPORT — The city is hoping to give local boaters a little more room to maneuver at the south jetty, while also preparing for an Army Corps of Engineers project to rebuild ...
Sandy Point State Reservation is on a large spit of sand at the southern end of Plum Island: "Sandy Point". Plum Island Drive, a dirt road on the southern half of Plum Island, ends at the foot of a hill of glacial origin, Bar Head. Rocks: "Bar Head Rocks", extend from a 19th-century gravel pit in the side of the hill into the water.
Construction on Plum Island's new laboratory Building 101 began around July 1, 1954, around the same time that the Army's anti-animal bio-warfare (BW) facilities at Fort Terry were transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [24] Following the transfer, the facilities on Plum Island became known as the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. [24]