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The Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge situated along the shore of Ninigret Pond. [2] It is characterized by salt marshes , kettle ponds , freshwater wetlands , maritime shrub lands, and forests, and it is seasonally inhabited by over 250 species of birds.
The Native leader who gave Ninigret Pond its name. The pond is named for Ninigret, (1600-1676), who was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett tribes. The Indigenous people once fished, hunted ...
According to information compiled by the Rhode Island Sea Grant program, Ninigret Pond's watershed covers 7,645.65 acres (3,094.08 ha), of which 5,820.79 acres (2,355.59 ha) is occupied by water; Ninigret Pond itself has a surface area of 1,580.38 acres (639.56 ha), while other, smaller bodies of water account for the other 244.48 acres (98.94 ha).
Sackets Harbor Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York.The district includes 143 contributing buildings, among a total of 156 buildings in the historic central core of the village.
According to a New York Times article, A parcel of 172 acres (0.70 km 2) of the deactivated Charlestown Naval Auxiliary Air Station on the South County coast, complete with a freshwater pond, it was opened as a park by the town of Charlestown... and forms a gateway to the older wildlife refuge and the barrier beach beyond. The park is to be ...
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Sackets Harbor (earlier spelled Sacketts Harbor) is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States, on Lake Ontario. The population was 1,450 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] The village was named after land developer and owner Augustus Sackett, who founded it in the early 1800s.
In 1662, Connecticut's royal charter delineated the easternmost border of the state as Narragansett Bay.However, a 1663 royal charter defined the western border of Rhode Island as the Pawcatuck River, which lies west of Narragansett Bay.