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This is a list of islands of Connecticut. The list does not include named minor rock outcroppings, former islands that are now connected to the mainland by landfill, or false islands that are connected by thin slivers of land to the mainland.
The island is currently listed as 14 acres (5.7 ha) in size. [7] In the 19th century, two fishing companies operated from the island and constructed piers, and the island was also used for grazing cattle and farming corn. [3] Records in the late 19th century indicate that the Haddam Island area of the Connecticut River was dredged annually. [8]
This island is part of the McKinney Wildlife Refuge and is off limits to visitation. Peach Island is at ; Sprite Island — located about 300 yards (270 m) to the northeast of Calf Pasture Beach and about 700 yards (640 m) north of Calf Pasture Island. In the 1940s, the island was the summer home of a New York City financier.
It is located on the east side of the Connecticut River south of Gillette Castle State Park, and is separated from the mainland by Selden Creek, land owned by the Nature Conservancy. The roughly lozenge-shaped island is about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) at its widest point and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long.
Named after the famed Captain William Kidd, Kidd's Island is one of the many landforms that bear his name in the Thimble Islands off of Stony Creek in Branford, Connecticut, as well as Kidd's Harbor, Kidds Lane, and Money Island, which was named for his treasure. The Thimbles were a favorite roaming ground of his, and he may have, as local ...
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Haddam, in Middlesex County, is located in south-central Connecticut in the lower Connecticut River Valley. It is also home to Cockaponset State Forest. It was incorporated in October 1668 as Hadham, [citation needed] but unusually for the many New England towns ending in -ham, the spelling eventually came to reflect the phonetic pronunciation.