Calf Island (Massachusetts)
- Calf Island (Massachusetts)
Calf Island, also known as Apthorps Island, is a windswept island situated some convert|9|mi|km offshore of downtown Boston in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of convert|18|acre|m2, plus an intertidal zone of a further convert|16|acre|m2, and has a thin layer of soil that supports vegetation including Wild Cherry, Beach Plum, Grasses, Chives, and Mock-orange. Access is by private boat only.[cite web| title = Calf Island Factsheet | url = http://www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_template.asp?rsIslands__MMColParam=calf | publisher = Boston Harbor Islands Partnership | accessdate = August 11 | accessyear = 2006] ]In the 1600s the island was granted to William Brewster of Plymouth Colony, after whom the adjacent islands of Great Brewster, Little Brewster, Middle Brewster and Outer Brewster are named. Subsequently it was owned by Charles Apthorp who also owned Long Island and other property in the harbor. Over the years, several huts and houses were built on the island, including a colonial style summer estate built by Benjamin P. Cheney, Jr. and his wife, actress Julia Arthur, in 1902. Today only ruins remain.[cite web| title = Calf Island Factsheet | url = http://www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_template.asp?rsIslands__MMColParam=calf | publisher = Boston Harbor Islands Partnership | accessdate = August 11 | accessyear = 2006] Illegal boxing matches were staged on the island in the late 19th century.]In the 1920s, the Army planned to install a pair of convert|16|in|mm|sing=on guns on Calf Island as part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston, along with convert|16|in|mm|sing=on gun batteries on Deer Island (now underneath Logan Airport) and Hog Island (now called Spinnaker Island), to cover the seaward approaches to Boston Harbor. The battery on Calf Island was never built.
cite web| title = Calf Island Factsheet | url = http://www.bostonislands.org/factsheet_template.asp?rsIslands__MMColParam=calf | publisher = Boston Harbor Islands Partnership | accessdate = August 11 | accessyear = 2006]
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