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  2. List of islands of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Fort Independence (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States. [2] [3] The first primitive fortification was called "The Castle", placed on the site in 1634.

  4. Castle Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Castle Island is a peninsula in South Boston on the shore of Boston Harbor. In 1928, Castle Island was connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land and is thus no longer an island. [ 3 ] It has been the site of a fortification since 1634, [ 3 ] and is currently a 22-acre (8.9 ha) recreation site and the location of Fort Independence .

  5. Georges Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Georges Island is one of the islands in the Boston Harbor, situated just over 7 miles (11 km) from downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 39 acres (160,000 m 2), plus an intertidal zone of a further 14 acres (57,000 m 2), and rises to a height of 50 feet (15 m) above sea level. Historic Fort Warren is on the island.

  6. Thompson Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Cathleen Stone Island, also known as Thompson Island, is a 170-acre (69 ha) island in the Dorchester Bay section of Boston Harbor, offshore from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is located slightly more than 4 miles (6.4 km) from Boston's Long Wharf via boat, [ 1 ] while approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) straight-line distance from Boston's ...

  7. Fayetteville, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Fayetteville (/ ˈ f eɪ ə t v ɪ l / FAY-ət-vil, locally / ˈ f ɛ d v ə l / FED-vəl [8]) is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. [9] It is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.

  8. Massachusetts Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site in deep water off the coast has been used for ocean dumping, to dispose of munitions, dredged material, rock and construction debris and sunken vessels. [1] Chemical warfare munitions were dumped between 1919 and 1970, and hundreds of thousands of tons of surplus artillery and munitions were dumped after ...

  9. Langham Hotel Boston - Wikipedia

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    The hotel was sold by Beacon and Stamford-based General Electric Investments Corp. to Hong Kong-based Pacific Eagle Holdings in 1997 for $100 million. [ 2 ] On December 31, 2003, the new owners switched management to their own Langham Hotels chain, and the hotel became The Langham, Boston .

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