Martha’s Vineyard | Can’t Sleep? Explore the Famous Island
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Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I help you drift off one fact at a time. I'm your host, Benjamin Boster. And today's episode is about Martha's Vineyard.
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Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod. It is known for being a popular affluent summer colony and includes the peninsula Chappaquitic Island. It is the fifty eighth largest island in the US and the ninth largest in the contiguous United States, with a land area of about ninety six square miles. And the third largest on the east coast after Long Island and Mount Desert Island. Martha's Vineyard constitutes the bulk of Dukes County, Massachusetts, which also includes the Elizabeth Islands and the Island of No Man's Land. The island's year round population has considerably increased since the nineteen sixties. In the twenty twenty three Martha's Vineyard Commission report, the year round population was twenty thousand five hundred and thirty, an increase from sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty in twenty ten.
The summer population swells to more than two hundred thousand people. About fifty six percent of the vineyard's fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty one homes are seasonally occupied. Though many have suggested that the island was renamed after English explorer Bartholomew Gosnald's daughter Martha, it is more likely that both the island and his daughter were namesakes of his wealthy mother in law, Martha Judd Golding, who partly funded his expedition in sixteen oh two, the first recorded European expedition to Cape Congo. A smaller island to the south was first to be named Martha's Vineyard, but the name later became associated with this island. It is the eighth oldest surviving English place name in the United States and
The island was subsequently known as Martin's Vineyard, possibly after a captain in the exploratory party, John Martin. Many people in maps up to the eighteenth century called it by this name. When the United States Board on Geographic Names worked to standardize place name spellings in the late nineteenth century, apostrophes were dropped. Thus, for a time, Martha's Vineyard was officially named Martha's without an apostrophe vineyard. But the board reversed its decision in the early twentieth century, making Martha's Vineyard one of the five place names in the United States that takes a possessive apostrophe. According to historian Henry Franklin Norton, the island was known by Native Americans as Nopi or Kapwak.
It is referred to in the sixteen ninety one Massachusetts Charter, which transferred the island from the province of New York during the breakup of the Dominion of New England as Kappawak. The island was originally inhabited by Wampanoag people, when Martha's vineyard was known in the Massachusetts language as Nopi, or land amid the streams. In sixteen forty two the Wampanoag numbered somewhere around three thousand on the island. By seventeen sixty four that number had dropped to three hundred thirteen. European settlement began with the purchase of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands by Thomas Mayhew, of Waterton, Massachusetts, from two New England settlers. He had friendly relations with the Wampanoags on the island, in part because he was careful to honor their land rights.
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