Description: Dooling, Michael C. An Historical Account of Charles Island, Milford Connecticut. Second Edition, Revised & Expanded, softcover, 128 pp.; contains 70 b&w and color maps, photographs, woodcuts, advertisements, manuscripts, and portraits. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Author Michael C. Dooling has revised and expanded his Milford history book An Historical Account of Charles Island. Originally published in 2006, this book relates the history of what is arguably the most storied island in Long Island Sound. He traces the history from native inhabitants through European discovery, the legend of Captain William Kidd’s treasure, the 19th century resorts, a prize fight gone bad, the Aquinas Retreat in the 1930s, and fictional stories that used the island as a backdrop. New material includes shipwrecks off the island, its place in the history of flight when Gustave Whitehead of Bridgeport used it as a testing site for one of his flying machines, testing of a torpedo by the U.S. Navy, the Hermit of Milford Beach, a rumrunner who paid his debt to God, the backstory of a nudist colony proposed for Charles Island, and a mysterious woman in white who purportedly walks the tombolo connecting the island with the shore.
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Location: Middlebury, Connecticut
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