Palmers Island

In Yesterdays Wednesday walk post I share a shot that showed Palmers island, and in a post a few days ago I shared shots of the Palmers Island Lighthouse, for this post I am going to focus on the island.

I got this first shot of it recently the light was just right and I was happy with I got

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Most of the other shots from this post are from last year when my wife and I waded through the little channel and onto the island, when I started preparing this post I realized it is something I must do again, but I have to remember to wear crocs to get across to the island, at low tide its very shallow to cross and sometimes even clear to walk across without getting into the water, but i have bene to lazy to take off my walking shoes and walk across carrying them LOL, so thats on my todo list to do again, so here are some shots from last fall

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This island was discovered before the arrival of the pilgrims, English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold first surveyed the 6-acre island during his exploration of New Bedford Harbor in 1602.
the Island was named after William Palmer an early Old Dartmouth settler

The Island was used as an internment camp for Native Americans during the war of King Phillip around 1675, and later as a garrison during the Revolutionary war.

And then in the 19th Century a Hotel and an amusement park were built there, so the island has a very interesting history.

Sadly during the 1938 Hurricane all the structures on the island were washed away.