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Marco Island in the 1960s. Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida.A number of Calusa artifacts were discovered on Key Marco (an island then adjacent, and since attached, to Marco Island) in 1896 by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing as part of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition.
Somerset Island comprises about half of the parish of Sandys, and is the largest of a chain of islands which extends along the northwestern coast of the Great Sound.The village of Somerset lies in the northern part of the island, which is connected to Boaz Island in the northeast and the Bermudian mainland in the south by bridges (the latter of these being the historic Somerset Bridge).
Somerset Island may refer to: Somerset Island, Bermuda; Somerset Island (Nunavut), Canada This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 04:18 (UTC). Text is ...
Otter Mound and the property surrounding it was a home site for early settlers in the Caxambas Village who worked in the Marco Island clamming industry.. The "Mound" on which Otter Mound Preserve sits was constructed by the Calusa native inhabitants from oyster, southern surf clam, lightning whelk, and other shellfish species and dates between 700 AD – 1200 AD.
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Chance is a census-designated place (CDP) in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census . It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Marco Island Airport covers an area of 140 acres (57 ha) and contains one asphalt runway (17/35): 5,000 ft × 100 ft (1,524 m × 30 m). [1]The Airport underwent a $15 million terminal redevelopment initiative to construct a new, two-story terminal building as the old terminal was located within an unsafe distance from Runway 17/35.
The chosen site, opposite Albany Island, was named Somerset, in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 57 ] Tenders were called for the construction of government buildings in March 1863, a town survey was undertaken in July 1864 and the Town Reserve of Somerset was established on 8 ...