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Plum Island is a barrier beach sheltering the Plum Island River, Plum Island Sound, and the mouths of the Parker, Rowley, Eagle Hill and Ipswich rivers. The entire area between the islands and the mainland is grassland laced with tidal creeks. At high tide the grassland is entirely submerged, in some places by only a few inches of water.
The Great Marsh. Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife sanctuary encompassing the majority of Plum Island in northeastern Essex County, Massachusetts, 5 miles southeast of Newburyport. It was established in 1942 primarily to provide feeding, resting, and nesting habitats for migratory birds.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center. / 41.178889°N 72.205556°W / 41.178889; -72.205556. Plum Island Animal Disease Center ( PIADC) is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases of livestock. It is a national laboratory of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Directorate for Science ...
The Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in Poquoson, Virginia, located on the southwestern corner of the Chesapeake Bay.The 3,501-acre (14.17 km 2) refuge is located at about the midpoint of the Atlantic Flyway, and is one of four refuges that comprise the Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
Sandy Point State Reservation. Sandy Point State Reservation is a coastal Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ipswich at the southern tip of Plum Island. The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.
The Parker River Refuge on Plum Island, Massachusetts is a national network of lands and rivers dedicated to the safety of its native wildlife and specifically the piping plover. Protecting the Piper with full beach closures, the Refuge now "has the second largest plover population on the [Massachusetts] North Shore". [20] [citation needed]
21 September 1963. A YMS-1 -class minesweeper that ran aground off Rockport . 42°40′24″N 70°34′29″W. / 42.67333°N 70.57472°W / 42.67333; -70.57472 ( USS Grouse (AMS-15)) Herbert. 5 August 1924. A lighter that was rammed in fog by the steamer City of Gloucester while at anchor off Nahant . 42°25′05″N 70°51′25″W.
87001485 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. June 15, 1987. The Newburyport Harbor Light, also known as Plum Island Light, built in 1788, is a historic lighthouse on Northern Boulevard in Newburyport, Massachusetts. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The original 4th order Fresnel lens is still in use, one of only five original glass Fresnel lenses still in use in Massachusetts.