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Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island.
The reserve on Poplar Island was used as an Aboriginal smallpox victim quarantine area and a cemetery. Informants from the New Westminster Indian Band identified the reserve as a site of burials for people from the Kwantlen First Nation. [3] For decades, the Poplar Island reserve was designated as belonging to "all coast tribes". [4] During ...
Poplar Island is a small island of Canada located off the west coast of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It is within Charlottetown city limits, in the North River of Charlottetown Harbour, less than a quarter mile east of the town of Cornwall. [1] It is connected to both sides of the river via Causeways, over which Prince Edward Island ...
The island has sand and gravel beaches, ledges, and cliffs. The island is half spruce forest and half meadow. The island was previously used by the Calderwood family to feed their sheep. Owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Open to the public. 75 acres (30 ha) 63-791: Caldwell: St. George: Knox: R: 63-794: Caldwell (East Most Lt) St. George ...
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
Poplar Island may refer to: Canada. Poplar Island (British Columbia) Poplar Island (Prince Edward Island) United Kingdom. Poplar Island, River Thames; Poplar Eyot;
Poplar Island; Sea Bird Island; Sea Island; Shady Island; Westham Island Central Coast. Johnstone Strait-Queen Charlotte Strait region. Broughton Archipelago.
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