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Brant
Rock and island don’t seem to go together even though those familiar with
Brant
Rock realize that the esplanade experiences flooding
during extreme high tides or storm surges. Sometimes
the water will invade from over the sea wall but mostly will come in the “back
door” from
Green
Harbor
. Even
fewer realize that Ocean Bluff, beginning around 1st Road down to
Brant
Rock esplanade has been referred to as an island
also.
Before
the sea wall was built along the barrier beach, tides would flow over the area
that is now the
Brant
Rock Esplanade as well as the land from
1st Road
to Rexhame. A motorist may not
notice the two hills as
Ocean Street
or route 139 runs along the beach to
Brant
Rock, but bicyclists certainly will.
Earlier the islands were named Govenor’s
Island
and then later after their owners. Ocean
Bluff was Hewitt’s
Island
and
Brant
Rock, Branch’s
Island
. Together, they would be called “
Spectacle
Island
” as they resembled eye glasses.
There were Algonquin, Missauctucket,
Wampatuck, and Machippo Indians in this area before the Pilgrims landed.
The Indians called
Marshfield
"Missaucatucket."
Brant
rock is said to have been named for
Brant
Geese.
The southern
“island” is where we will be exploring. Parking is available on the
esplanade, parking lot across from the
Brant
Rock Market and at the town pier and boat launch.
Table of Contents:
- First
canal in the new world - 1633
- First
cable news network – 1850
- First
two way trans-Atlantic to
Scotland
radio communications by spark
telegraph
- World’s
First Radio Broadcast Christmas eve 1906
- First
two-way transatlantic radio transmission - 1907
-
Brant Rock
Inventions
-
Massasoit's
Peace Pipe
-
Resorts
and Hotels
-
Rum
Runners
-
Great
Fire Fire of 1941
-
Brant
Rock Life Station
-
Six
Ancient Shipwrecks
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