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The Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve on Nantucket Island and is managed by the Trustees of Reservations. It encompasses miles of beaches, the largest red cedar woodland in New England and Great Point Light. [1] The reservation began with an acquisition of land in 1974. [2]
Many of the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails are named after local Native American tribes, people, and place names. many of the trails follow historic footpaths. The name of the trail itself, Narragansett, is a tribe of Algonquian-speaking people who live in present-day western Rhode Island, including the coast and islands in Narragansett Bay. Members ...
Nantucket Island 41°17′30″N 70°04′04″W / 41.291667°N 70.067778°W / 41.291667; -70.067778 ( Nantucket Historic Historic district encompassing the entire island, as well as the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget .
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Earlier this year, a waterfront house on Nantucket made headlines after its listing price plummeted 74% in the span of about six months.The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home dropped from $2.3 ...
The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into ...
Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, USA.
One of four original counties created in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Government abolished in 1997. [4] For the English county of Middlesex: 1,623,952: 824 sq mi (2,134 km 2) Nantucket County: 019: Nantucket: 1695: From Nantucket Island which had been part of Dukes County, New York until Massachusetts gained it in 1691.