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Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

April 18, 2024

The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is a national recreation area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. The area is made up of a collection of islands, together with a former island and a peninsula, many of which are open for public recreation and some of which are very small and best suited for wildlife. The area is run by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership.[2] It includes the Boston Harbor Islands State Park, managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Twenty-one of the 34 islands in the area are also included in the Boston Harbor Islands Archeological District.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
Spectacle Island, in Boston Harbor, and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Behind Spectacle Island is Thompson Island.
LocationNorfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts
Nearest cityBoston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′7″N 70°56′45″W / 42.31861°N 70.94583°W / 42.31861; -70.94583
Area1,482 acres (6.00 km2)[1]
EstablishedNovember 12, 1996
Governing bodyBoston Harbor Islands Partnership which includes the National Park Service together with other federal, state, city, and nonprofit agencies.
WebsiteBoston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

Attractions include hiking trails, beaches, the Civil War-era Fort Warren on Georges Island and Boston Light on Little Brewster Island, the oldest lighthouse in the United States.[3] Georges Island and Spectacle Island are served seasonally by ferries to and from Boston, connecting on weekends and summer weekdays with a shuttle boat to several other islands, Hull, and Hingham.[4]

In 1996, there was a project proposal by Boston's mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Clifford A. Goudey to revitalize the aquaculture and fish population in Boston Harbor. This would have involved using the old tanks and granite canals on Moon Island.[5]

In 2008, Peddocks Island was used for filming scenes in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.[6]

List of islands and peninsulas edit

 
Map of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is made up of a series of rocky islands and other places on and around Boston Harbor. These include:[2][7]

Two islands (Castle Island and Spinnaker Island) in Boston Harbor are not part of the National Recreation Area, and other former islands (e.g. Apple Island, Governors Island and Noddle's Island) were obliterated by the formation of East Boston and the expansion of Logan International Airport before the area was designated.

Management edit

The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership,[8] a statutory body established as a federal operating committee by the park enabling legislation. The partnership consists of individual members who represent a range of federal, state, city, and nonprofit agencies, including:

In addition, the Partnership includes representation from the Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council, whose purpose is to make recommendations to the Partnership about park management. There are 13 Partners in total, together with 13 Alternates. Apart from the representative for the Coast Guard, who is appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security, all the members of the partnership are appointed by the Secretary of the Interior after consultation with the appropriate agency or other body.[9][10][11]

In practice, day-to-day management of each individual island or other site is the responsibility of one of the partner agencies or other bodies. The partnership provides a consistency and coordination across the whole park.[12]

Boston Harbor Islands State Park edit

Boston Harbor Islands State Park is a Massachusetts state park comprising 13 islands located in Boston Harbor, which now forms part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

The park was developed from the 1970s by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management (DEM). In 1996, the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area was created, including the State Park's islands and many others. However, due to the unusual partnership management arrangements of the National Recreation Area, the State Park still exists as a low profile administrative entity. It is now managed by the DEM's successor, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, from a park headquarters near to the ferry terminal in Hingham.[12]

The islands of the Boston Harbor Islands State Park are:[12]

Transportation edit

 
Ferries of the Harbor Islands Express link downtown Boston with some of the islands.

Boston Harbor Cruises offers ferry service from Long Wharf at Christopher Columbus Park to Georges and Spectacle Islands.[13] Free service is available between Georges and Spectacle, as well as between the other islands.[14] Summer service is also available from Hingham Shipyard and Hull to Georges Island via Grape, Bumpkin, and Lovells Islands.[15] (These services are separate from MBTA Boat harbor ferries.)

Thompson Island is only open to the public on Sundays during the summer. It is served by a ferry leaving from both Spectacle Island and the EDIC dock on Terminal Street in South Boston,[16] operated by the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center.[17]

Private boats can dock (with various restrictions) at Spectacle, Grape, Bumpkin, Lovells, and Peddocks Islands.[18] The public dock on Georges Island was recently condemned by engineers, although access is still available by making anchor off shore and using a dinghy to row ashore.

Deer Island, Nut Island, Worlds End, and Webb Memorial are accessible by road from the mainland. Moon Island and Long Island are not open to the public; though Moon Island is accessible by road from Quincy, access is controlled by a police guard station at the beginning of the causeway on the Squantum peninsula. The causeway from Moon Island to Long Island was demolished in 2015 and it is no longer accessible by road.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Listing of acreage – December 31, 2011" (XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved December 16, 2012. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
  2. ^ a b . Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved August 9, 2006.
  3. ^ . National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 14, 2006. Retrieved June 18, 2006.
  4. ^ . Boston Harbor Cruises. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Cf. Best; Cf. Marcus
  6. ^ Riglian, Adam (April 14, 2008). . The Patriot Ledger. GateHouse Media. Archived from the original on October 27, 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
  7. ^ US Geological Survey 7.5 minute series topographic map "Hull" 1971
  8. ^ "Boston Harbor Islands Partnership - Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  9. ^ . Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. Archived from the original on October 5, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2006.
  10. ^ . Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. Archived from the original on August 30, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2006.
  11. ^ "Public Law 104-33, 110 Stat. 4093 Sec. 1029. Boston Harbor Islands Recreation Area". Retrieved October 6, 2006.
  12. ^ a b c "Boston Harbor Islands - General Management Plan" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved October 19, 2006.
  13. ^ . Archived from the original on July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  14. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ . Archived from the original on April 6, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  16. ^ http://www.bostonislands.org/mainland-piers-edic-pier [permanent dead link]
  17. ^ . Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  18. ^ . Archived from the original on July 10, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.

Bibliography edit

  • Best, Neil A., , Masters Thesis, Ocean Engineering, MIT, February 1997. Technical Advisor, Clifford A. Goudey.
  • The Boston Globe, "Harboring recreation", Guest Editorial, June 3, 2006.
  • Kales, Emily, Kales, David, "All About the Boston Harbor Islands", Hewitts Cove Publishing, 1983.
  • Marcus, John, "Scientists Test Once-Polluted Harbor’s Crop Potential", Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 11, 1998
  • Mikal, Alan, "Exploring Boston Harbor", Christopher Publishing House, North Quincy, Massachusetts, 1973. ISBN 978-0-8158-0303-4
  • Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 12, Issue sp3, July 2005. Articles on the Boston Harbor Islands. [1]
  • Richburg, Julie A., , III, , Northeastern Naturalist, v.12, Special Issue 3, 13-30, 2005.
  • Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell, "Boston's Harbor Islands", Images of America series, 1998. ISBN 0-7524-0900-X
  • Sherman, Annie, , Boston magazine, May 2007 issue.
  • Snow, Edward Rowe
    • "The Islands of Boston Harbor", 1935. ISBN 0-396-08349-8 [2]
    • "Sailing Down Boston Bay", Yankee Publishing Company, 1941.
  • "Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors", printed for the State Street Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917.
  • "The Islands of Boston Harbor", in "Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors", Chapter 4, printed for the State Street Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917.
  • Sweetser, M.F., "King's Handbook of Boston Harbor", Moses King Corporation, Boston, 1882; reprinted in 1988 by Applewood Books, and The Friends of Boston Harbor Islands, and in 2010 by BiblioLife. ISBN 978-1-141-97744-4 (2010 reprint). This book was written about the time when the first Boston almshouse was being built on Long Island.

Further reading edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.
  • Metro (Boston edition) newspaper, "Boston Harbor Islands", Boston Neighborhood section, August 1, 2007, p. 14.
  • "Harbor islands are jewels, but lack resources and accessibility", Boston Globe, OP/ED, Sunday, April 4, 2010

External links edit

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The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is a national recreation area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston Massachusetts The area is made up of a collection of islands together with a former island and a peninsula many of which are open for public recreation and some of which are very small and best suited for wildlife The area is run by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership 2 It includes the Boston Harbor Islands State Park managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Twenty one of the 34 islands in the area are also included in the Boston Harbor Islands Archeological District Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation AreaSpectacle Island in Boston Harbor and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Behind Spectacle Island is Thompson Island Show map of MassachusettsShow map of the United StatesLocationNorfolk Plymouth and Suffolk counties MassachusettsNearest cityBoston MassachusettsCoordinates42 19 7 N 70 56 45 W 42 31861 N 70 94583 W 42 31861 70 94583Area1 482 acres 6 00 km2 1 EstablishedNovember 12 1996Governing bodyBoston Harbor Islands Partnership which includes the National Park Service together with other federal state city and nonprofit agencies WebsiteBoston Harbor Islands National Recreation AreaAttractions include hiking trails beaches the Civil War era Fort Warren on Georges Island and Boston Light on Little Brewster Island the oldest lighthouse in the United States 3 Georges Island and Spectacle Island are served seasonally by ferries to and from Boston connecting on weekends and summer weekdays with a shuttle boat to several other islands Hull and Hingham 4 In 1996 there was a project proposal by Boston s mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Clifford A Goudey to revitalize the aquaculture and fish population in Boston Harbor This would have involved using the old tanks and granite canals on Moon Island 5 In 2008 Peddocks Island was used for filming scenes in Martin Scorsese s Shutter Island 6 Contents 1 List of islands and peninsulas 2 Management 3 Boston Harbor Islands State Park 4 Transportation 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 Further reading 9 External linksList of islands and peninsulas edit nbsp Map of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is made up of a series of rocky islands and other places on and around Boston Harbor These include 2 7 Bumpkin Island Hingham Button Island Hingham Calf Island Boston Deer Island Boston Gallops Island Boston Georges Island Boston Grape Island Weymouth The Graves Boston Great Brewster Island Boston Green Island Boston Hangman Island Quincy Langlee Island Hingham Little Brewster Island Boston Little Calf Island Boston Long Island Boston Lovells Island Boston Middle Brewster Island Boston Moon Island Quincy Nixes Mate Boston Nut Island Quincy Outer Brewster Island Boston Peddocks Island Hull Raccoon Island Quincy Ragged Island Hingham Rainsford Island Boston Sarah Island Hingham Shag Rocks Boston Sheep Island Weymouth Slate Island Weymouth Snake Island Winthrop Spectacle Island Boston Thompson Island Boston Webb Memorial Park Weymouth World s End Hingham Two islands Castle Island and Spinnaker Island in Boston Harbor are not part of the National Recreation Area and other former islands e g Apple Island Governors Island and Noddle s Island were obliterated by the formation of East Boston and the expansion of Logan International Airport before the area was designated Management editThe Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is managed by the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership 8 a statutory body established as a federal operating committee by the park enabling legislation The partnership consists of individual members who represent a range of federal state city and nonprofit agencies including United States National Park Service United States Coast Guard Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Massachusetts Port Authority Massachusetts Water Resources Authority City of Boston Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Harbor Island Alliance Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center The Trustees of ReservationsIn addition the Partnership includes representation from the Boston Harbor Islands Advisory Council whose purpose is to make recommendations to the Partnership about park management There are 13 Partners in total together with 13 Alternates Apart from the representative for the Coast Guard who is appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security all the members of the partnership are appointed by the Secretary of the Interior after consultation with the appropriate agency or other body 9 10 11 In practice day to day management of each individual island or other site is the responsibility of one of the partner agencies or other bodies The partnership provides a consistency and coordination across the whole park 12 Boston Harbor Islands State Park editBoston Harbor Islands State Park is a Massachusetts state park comprising 13 islands located in Boston Harbor which now forms part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area The park was developed from the 1970s by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management DEM In 1996 the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area was created including the State Park s islands and many others However due to the unusual partnership management arrangements of the National Recreation Area the State Park still exists as a low profile administrative entity It is now managed by the DEM s successor the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation from a park headquarters near to the ferry terminal in Hingham 12 The islands of the Boston Harbor Islands State Park are 12 Bumpkin Island Calf Island Gallops Island Grape Island Great Brewster Island Green Island Hangman Island Little Calf Island Middle Brewster Island Outer Brewster Island Raccoon Island Sheep Island Slate IslandTransportation edit nbsp Ferries of the Harbor Islands Express link downtown Boston with some of the islands Boston Harbor Cruises offers ferry service from Long Wharf at Christopher Columbus Park to Georges and Spectacle Islands 13 Free service is available between Georges and Spectacle as well as between the other islands 14 Summer service is also available from Hingham Shipyard and Hull to Georges Island via Grape Bumpkin and Lovells Islands 15 These services are separate from MBTA Boat harbor ferries Thompson Island is only open to the public on Sundays during the summer It is served by a ferry leaving from both Spectacle Island and the EDIC dock on Terminal Street in South Boston 16 operated by the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center 17 Private boats can dock with various restrictions at Spectacle Grape Bumpkin Lovells and Peddocks Islands 18 The public dock on Georges Island was recently condemned by engineers although access is still available by making anchor off shore and using a dinghy to row ashore Deer Island Nut Island Worlds End and Webb Memorial are accessible by road from the mainland Moon Island and Long Island are not open to the public though Moon Island is accessible by road from Quincy access is controlled by a police guard station at the beginning of the causeway on the Squantum peninsula The causeway from Moon Island to Long Island was demolished in 2015 and it is no longer accessible by road See also editNational Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Suffolk County MassachusettsReferences edit Listing of acreage December 31 2011 XLSX Land Resource Division National Park Service Retrieved December 16 2012 National Park Service Acreage Reports a b Boston Harbor Islands Visitor s Guide The Islands Boston Harbor Islands Partnership Archived from the original on August 13 2006 Retrieved August 9 2006 National Historic Landmark nomination for Boston Light National Park Service Archived from the original on June 14 2006 Retrieved June 18 2006 Boston Harbor Islands Ferry Schedule Boston Harbor Cruises Archived from the original on June 26 2014 Retrieved June 18 2014 Cf Best Cf Marcus Riglian Adam April 14 2008 DiCaprio Scorsese filming on Peddocks Island The Patriot Ledger GateHouse Media Archived from the original on October 27 2008 Retrieved May 21 2008 US Geological Survey 7 5 minute series topographic map Hull 1971 Boston Harbor Islands Partnership Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area U S National Park Service www nps gov Retrieved April 4 2018 Islands Partnership Governance Boston Harbor Islands Partnership Archived from the original on October 5 2006 Retrieved October 6 2006 Islands Partnership Membership Boston Harbor Islands Partnership Archived from the original on August 30 2006 Retrieved October 6 2006 Public Law 104 33 110 Stat 4093 Sec 1029 Boston Harbor Islands Recreation Area Retrieved October 6 2006 a b c Boston Harbor Islands General Management Plan PDF National Park Service Retrieved October 19 2006 WTA Boston Harbor Islands Archived from the original on July 28 2010 Retrieved July 31 2010 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on July 24 2008 Retrieved June 25 2008 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Ferry Schedule Archived from the original on April 6 2010 Retrieved July 26 2010 http www bostonislands org mainland piers edic pier permanent dead link Ferry Tickets Boston Harbor Islands Archived from the original on July 8 2011 Retrieved July 26 2010 Boston Harbor Islands Trip Planner Docks amp Marinas Boston Harbor Islands Archived from the original on July 10 2010 Retrieved July 26 2010 Bibliography editBest Neil A Preliminary Design of a Recirculating Aquaculture System in Boston Harbor Masters Thesis Ocean Engineering MIT February 1997 Technical Advisor Clifford A Goudey The Boston Globe Harboring recreation Guest Editorial June 3 2006 Kales Emily Kales David All About the Boston Harbor Islands Hewitts Cove Publishing 1983 Marcus John Scientists Test Once Polluted Harbor s Crop Potential Los Angeles Times Sunday January 11 1998 Mikal Alan Exploring Boston Harbor Christopher Publishing House North Quincy Massachusetts 1973 ISBN 978 0 8158 0303 4 Northeastern Naturalist Volume 12 Issue sp3 July 2005 Articles on the Boston Harbor Islands 1 Richburg Julie A Patterson William A III Historical Description of the Vegetation of the Boston Harbor Islands 1600 2000 Northeastern Naturalist v 12 Special Issue 3 13 30 2005 Sammarco Anthony Mitchell Boston s Harbor Islands Images of America series 1998 ISBN 0 7524 0900 X Sherman Annie The Other Islands The Harbor Islands make for an easy day trip for sunbathers history buffs and especially the traffic weary Boston magazine May 2007 issue Snow Edward Rowe The Islands of Boston Harbor 1935 ISBN 0 396 08349 8 2 Sailing Down Boston Bay Yankee Publishing Company 1941 Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors printed for the State Street Trust Company Boston Massachusetts 1917 The Islands of Boston Harbor in Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors Chapter 4 printed for the State Street Trust Company Boston Massachusetts 1917 Sweetser M F King s Handbook of Boston Harbor Moses King Corporation Boston 1882 reprinted in 1988 by Applewood Books and The Friends of Boston Harbor Islands and in 2010 by BiblioLife ISBN 978 1 141 97744 4 2010 reprint This book was written about the time when the first Boston almshouse was being built on Long Island Further reading edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Metro Boston edition newspaper Boston Harbor Islands Boston Neighborhood section August 1 2007 p 14 Harbor islands are jewels but lack resources and accessibility Boston Globe OP ED Sunday April 4 2010External links edit nbsp Massachusetts portalBoston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Boston Harbor Islands Visitor Guide Boston Harbor resources site NOAA Soundings Map of Boston Harbor Island Alliance Boston Harbor Boston Harbor Islands Massachusetts Department of Conservation amp Recreation DCR The Boston Harbor Association resources nbsp Boston Harbor Islands travel guide from Wikivoyage Volunteers and Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands Inc records 1770 2011 University Archives and Special Collections Joseph P Healey Library University of Massachusetts Boston Sean M Fisher 2015 Guide to Related Archival Collections Outside of the DCR Archives Pertaining to the Metropolitan Parks System the Metropolitan Water Works System and the State Forests and Parks System Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation OCLC 971134548 Boston Harbor Islands Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area amp oldid 1172869090, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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