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Gardiners Island. Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the east end of Long Island. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and has 27 miles (43 km) of coastline.
Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island. He had been working in the Netherlands and was hired to construct fortifications on the Connecticut River, for the Connecticut Colony.
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park is a combination national recreation area and state park situated among the islands of Boston Harbor. The park is made up of 34 islands and peninsulas [2][3] and is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. [4] Twenty-one of the islands are also included in the Boston Harbor Islands ...
Added to NRHP. January 27, 1983. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Gardner, whose will called for her art ...
Naushon Island is the largest of the Elizabeth Islands in southeastern Massachusetts. It is part of the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts, and is currently owned by the Forbes family. As of the 2000 census, the island had a permanent population of 30 people. The island is seven miles (11 km) long and 7.4 square miles in land area (19.18 km 2).
Gardiners Point Island is the small island north of Gardiners Island on this map from 1904. Funds for a lighthouse on Gardiners Point Island, which was at the time a peninsula of Gardiners Island, connected by a long neck of land, were appropriated by Congress in 1851 and 1852. In 1851 the federal government purchased 14 acres (5.7 hectares) on ...