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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.
Plum Island appears as an unnamed island as early as Captain John Smith's map of New England. Various scholars have speculated on the nature of the earlier accounts of European explorers in the New World, with particular focus on the latter's surveys of the coastlines of Massachusetts, but Smith's account identifies Plum Island.
The center is located on Plum Island near the northeast coast of Long Island in New York state. During the Spanish–American War, the island was purchased by the government for the construction of Fort Terry, which was later deactivated after World War II and then reactivated in 1952 for the Army Chemical Corps.
Plum Island Light is located on the western end of Plum Island, which lies in the Long Island Sound, east of Orient Point at the end of the North Fork of Long Island, New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An historic granite lighthouse originally built in 1869 sits at the site, but no longer serves as an active aid to navigation.
The Newburyport Harbor Light, also known as Plum Island Light, built in 1788, is a historic lighthouse on Northern Boulevard in Newburyport, Massachusetts. [2] [3]The original 4th order Fresnel lens is still in use, one of only five original glass Fresnel lenses still in use in Massachusetts.
Plum Island Airport, in Newburyport, Massachusetts; Plum Island (New York), an island near Long Island, New York Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of animal diseases that is located on Plum Island, New York; Plum Island Light also known as Plum Gut Light, a lighthouse located on ...
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife sanctuary encompassing the majority of Plum Island in northeastern Essex County, Massachusetts, 5 miles southeast of Newburyport. It was established in 1942 primarily to provide feeding, resting, and nesting habitats for migratory birds.
Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Boston.The population was 18,289 at the 2020 census. [2] A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island.