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Plum Island is an island in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York.The island is situated in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long 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.
Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, United States. This strategic position afforded it a commanding view over the Atlantic entrance to the commercially vital Long Island Sound. It was established in 1897 and used intermittently through the end of World War II.
Plum Island — in Long Island Sound, eastern Suffolk County, New York. The main article for this category is Plum Island (New York) . Pages in category "Plum Island (New York)"
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.
Initial media reports included speculation that the Montauk Monster might have been a turtle without its shell—although turtles' shells are fused with the spine and cannot be removed in this way— [12] [13] a dog, a large rodent, or a science experiment from the nearby government animal testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
DeMille was born on Aug. 23, 1943 in New York City. ... He primarily wrote suspense adventure stories, and many of his books, including Plum Island (1997), The Lion’s Game (2000), ...
Plum Island (New York) R. Robins Island; S. Shelter Island, New York This page was last edited on 4 August 2017, at 11:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...