Governors Island (Massachusetts)

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1888 map of Boston Harbor showing Governors Island before the airport was built.
1888 map of Boston Harbor showing Governors Island before the airport was built.

Governors Island is a former island within Boston Harbor in the US state of Massachusetts. The island has been subsumed into land reclamation for the construction and extension of Logan International Airport.[1]

Governor's Island was the former site of Fort Winthrop, a defensive fortification named after Governor John Winthrop, whose family was granted the island in 1632 and owned it until 1808, when it was acquired for the construction of the fort.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Governors Island Factsheet. Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. Retrieved on October 10, 2006.
  2. ^ Boston Illustrated - VI - The Harbor. Boston And New York Houghton, Mifflin And Company (1891). Retrieved on October 15, 2006.


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