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Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, United States, where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company , it was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres (1.4 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
A marina on Harbor Island, San Diego. Harbor Island is a man-made peninsula created in 1961 from harbor dredgings, located in San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. [1] It lies between Shelter Island and downtown San Diego, and is directly across Harbor Drive from San Diego International Airport. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) long and only a few ...
The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership, [27] a statutory body established as a federal operating committee by the park enabling legislation. The partnership consists of individual members who represent a range of federal, state, city, and nonprofit agencies, including:
They were built up from former sand bars and now hold hotels, restaurants, marinas, and public parkland. Across from Harbor Island is a bayside park called Spanish Landing, a historic site which commemorates the meeting in 1769 of two expeditions from Spanish Mexico that made possible the European settlement of California. [11]
public park Harbor Island at Hanford Street, West Waterway 1.1 acre public park [132] Near here in 1918 was the Mullins Saw Mill Co. [133] 5 Campbell Machine Works [95] by 1918 [95] after 1918 [95] machine works southwest Harbor Island, West Waterway, small parcel southwest of Mullins Saw Mill Co. [95] 6 Fisher Mill [134]
Sportime Harbor Island is a tennis club owned and operated by Sportime NY, located in the Village of Mamaroneck, New York inside Harbor Island Park. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The club has eight outdoor red clay tennis courts that are bubbled during colder times of the year.
The Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge is a 695-acre (281 ha) horseshoe-shaped island and National Wildlife Refuge in Potagannissing Bay north of Drummond Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. The island was acquired in 1983 by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from its previous owner, The Nature Conservancy, and set aside as a ...
Island Park incorporated itself as a village in 1926. Its first mayor was Charles N. Talbot, who served in that capacity for 12 years. [2] [3] In the 1950s, there was a proposal in which Island Park would have annexed the adjacent hamlet of Harbor Isle.