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    Cuttyhunk Island is the outermost of the Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. A small outpost for the harvesting of sassafras was occupied for a few weeks...
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    the islands for hunting and fishing. The Indigenous name, Pocutohhunkunnoh, meaning Lands End, was the inspiration for the name Cuttyhunk Island. Europeans...
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    USS Cuttyhunk Island (AG-75/AKS-23) was a Belle Isle-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Cuttyhunk Island was...
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    of the 7 August 1992 grounding of the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) off Cuttyhunk Island, near Martha's Vineyard. The liner's speed at the time was 24 knots...
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    Nashawena Island is the second largest of the Elizabeth Islands of Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. It lies between Cuttyhunk Island to the west...
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    Gosnold, Massachusetts (category Elizabeth Islands)
    village of Cuttyhunk, while most of the land in the town is owned by the Forbes family. The earliest inhabitants of the Elizabeth Islands were the Wampanoag...
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    Elizabeth Islands, many of which are privately owned. One of the publicly accessible Elizabeths is the southernmost island in the chain, Cuttyhunk Island, with...
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    of the Vineyard), the Elizabeth Islands, including Cuttyhunk, and Nomans Land. The original inhabitants of the islands were Wampanoag, who had several...
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    Paul Cuffe (category People from Cuttyhunk Island)
    businessman, whaler and abolitionist. Born free into a multiracial family on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, Cuffe became a successful merchant and sea captain...
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    of the hull was extensively damaged when she ran aground south of Cuttyhunk Island near Martha's Vineyard, while returning from a five-day cruise to Halifax...
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    fishing and boating community thrives; off its coast, the Elizabeth Islands and Cuttyhunk can be seen. The New Bedford Yacht Club in Padanaram hosts a bi-annual...
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  • Peleg Slocum (category People from Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
    Quaker from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, he was a proprietor of Dartmouth, Massachusetts and sole owner of Cuttyhunk Island. Despite being known as an “honest...
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  • American horror film written and directed by Gabriel Cowan. In 1989 on Cuttyhunk Island, scientist Mason Lane used microscopic parasites to advance human evolution...
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    Interior. Retrieved 2018-11-12. Howland, Alice Forbes. A Brief History of Naushon (PDF). Cuttyhunk Historical Society, the Museum of the Elizabeth Islands...
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    Island Bassetts Island Bird Island Elizabeth Islands Bachelor Island Baret Island Cuttyhunk Island Nashawena Island Naushon Island Nonamesset Island Pasque...
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    graduation address to Carter Lynch, the sole graduate of Cuttyhunk Elementary School, on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. In 2019 the Irish postal service An...
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    English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold in the ship Concord landed on Cuttyhunk Island while exploring New England. From there, he explored Cape Cod and the...
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  • Cuttyhunk Harbor is a bay in Dukes County, Massachusetts. It is located between Copicut Neck on Cuttyhunk Island and Nashawena Island 0.5 miles (0.80 km)...
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  • Bourne, Massachusetts Buzzards Bay Entrance Light, a lighthouse near Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts Buzzards Bay station, a train station in Buzzards Bay...
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  • that runs from Cuttyhunk Harbor to the Vineyard Sound and separates Nashawena Island from Cuttyhunk Island, two of the Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod,...
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    former proprietor of Dartmouth, Massachusetts and former owner of Cuttyhunk Island Cole Swider, professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers...
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    determined to make the west side of on an islet within Cuttyhunk Island their settlement. From that island Archer saw the a hill on the mainland which he called...
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    Cuttyhunk Light was a lighthouse at the west end of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. First established in 1823, it was rebuilt several times. The last...
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  • terminals for Seastreak ferries to the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and the ferry to Cuttyhunk Island. There are plans to add offshore wind...
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    Island, Deer Island and Nut Island, all in Boston Harbor, have been attached to the mainland and remain islands in name only. Castle and Nut Islands now...
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    sailed about the various islands now called Elizabeth until they came upon Cuttyhunk Island (which they called Elizabeth Island), where on 20 May they determined...
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    New Bedford offers passenger ferry services to Martha's Vineyard and Cuttyhunk Island. Battleship Cove, the world's largest collection of World War II naval...
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    William Madison Wood (category People from Cuttyhunk Island)
    the Indians withdrew from the league and folded. Cuttyhunk - Wood and family had two homes on the island now known as Avalon and Winter House. The National...
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    unofficial gusts of 150 mph (241 km/h). A New Bedford fishing boat off Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, reported a peak gust of 162 mph (261 km/h). October...
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  • Elkan Blout (category People from Cuttyhunk Island)
    2006(2006-12-20) (aged 87) Boston, Massachusetts, US Resting place Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts Awards National Academy of Sciences (elected 1969);...
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