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The Boston Harbor Association; NOAA Soundings Map of Boston Harbor; Flickr.com, Photos, January 2009. Flickr.com, Photos, November 2009. Flickr.com, Photos, February 2010. Dutton, E.P. Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay with Map of Adjacent Country. Archived May 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Published 1867. A good map of a proposed ...
Many of the Boston Harbor islands that are located under Logan's flight paths are part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Although most of the islands are in or near the Atlantic Ocean , several islands in western Massachusetts are found in the Connecticut River and a few others are surrounded by natural or man made lakes ...
Raccoon Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated just offshore of Hough's Neck in the city of Quincy. The island has a permanent size of just under 4 acres (16,000 m 2 ), and is composed of bedrock outcroppings which reach an elevation of 30 feet (9.1 m) above sea level .
The Hough's Neck Pumping Station (or the "Pumpy" by the locals) is also part of the Boston Harbor Islands, along with Raccoon Island, which can be walked to at low tide. Raccoon Island covers .3 sq. miles. In 1778, founding father John Adams left for a diplomatic mission to France from Houghs Neck instead of Boston, to evade capture by the British.
A map of Boston Harbor from 1888. Before the colonization of the Americas, the area served as a trading post for Native Americans in the region. [citation needed] After the establishment of the Boston settlement by John Winthrop in 1630 and the creation of a local shipbuilding industry, the port served the rapidly expanding American colonies.
Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors, printed for the State Street Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917. "The Islands of Boston Harbor", in Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors, Chapter 4, printed for the State Street Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917. Winsor, Justin, Jewett, C.F., The Memorial History of Boston Including ...
Spinnaker Island (formerly known as Park Island, Hog Island, and Little Hog Island) is an island in the Hingham Bay area of Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, USA. The island is part of the town of Hull , to which it is connected by a bridge, and is one of the few harbor islands that neither forms part of the Boston Harbor Islands National ...
Cathleen Stone Island, also known as Thompson Island, is a 170-acre (69 ha) island in the Dorchester Bay section of Boston Harbor, offshore from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is located slightly more than 4 miles (6.4 km) from Boston's Long Wharf via boat, [ 1 ] while approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) straight-line distance from Boston's ...