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The Misery Islands (Great Misery Island and Little Misery Island) are an 87-acre (350,000 m 2) nature reserve established in 1935 in Salem Sound close to the Salem Harbor in Salem, Massachusetts It is managed by the Trustees of Reservations . [ 1 ]
The approximately 55-acre (220,000 m 2) island was known as Bakers Island as early as the 1630s. Originally owned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was granted to the town of Salem in 1660. John Turner was the first private owner of the island. The island once housed a hotel, but it burned down in 1906. [1]
Rainsford Island is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, a National Recreation Area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous ...
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
1.10.20 Massachusetts. 1.10.21 Michigan. ... Canobie Lake Park – Salem; ... Fantasy Island Amusement Park – Beach Haven;
Before it became a television series, Fantasy Island was introduced to viewers in 1977 and 1978 through two made-for-television films.Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere near Devil's Island, French Guiana in the Atlantic Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out ...
The island has had numerous names including Catta, Cotta, Catt, Cat, Lowell, Pollard, and Children's; for most of history it was Cat Island. The origin of its name is that in the 18th century Catta was a corruption of Cotta and referred to an early Marblehead native named Robert Cotta, who used the land between 1635 and 1655 for the grazing of his sheep.
Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts.Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification from the Anglo-Dutch Wars through World War II.