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  2. Sandy Point State Reservation - Wikipedia

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    Sandy Point State Reservation is a coastal Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ipswich at the southern tip of Plum Island.The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.

  3. Parker River National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The refuge includes the mouth of the Parker River, which drains the mainland on the other side of Plum Island Sound. The refuge also includes the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, an 8-mile (13 km) long barrier island off the coast of mainland Essex County. The southern tip of the island, however, belongs to Sandy Point State Reservation ...

  4. Plum Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    Plum Island is a barrier beach sheltering the Plum Island River, Plum Island Sound, and the mouths of the Parker, Rowley, Eagle Hill and Ipswich rivers. The entire area between the islands and the mainland is grassland laced with tidal creeks. At high tide the grassland is entirely submerged, in some places by only a few inches of water.

  5. Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The lighthouse is still in use today, but Coast Guard employees no longer remain on the island to operate it. [7] The Plum Island Range Lights and the Pilot Island Light are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. On October 17, 2007, Pilot and Plum Islands were officially added to the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

  6. Crane Beach - Wikipedia

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    Across the water, Plum Island and its sandy beaches are visible. Crane Beach was established in 1945 as a gift from Florence Higinbotham Crane, daughter-in-law of Richard T. Crane , and her family. The property is a part of the larger Crane Estate, along with Castle Hill and the Crane Wildlife Refuge , and is owned and maintained by The ...

  7. Fort Terry - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Plum Island (New York) - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in Poquoson, Virginia, located on the southwestern corner of the Chesapeake Bay.The 3,501-acre (14.17 km 2) refuge is located at about the midpoint of the Atlantic Flyway, and is one of four refuges that comprise the Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex.