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Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay was first encountered by Europeans in 1573 by Spanish explorer Juan Menendez de Marques. It is part of Talbot County, Maryland and is currently being rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using dredged material from the Chesapeake Bay's approach channels to Baltimore, located approximately 30 miles north/north-west of the island. As of January 2011, the project's total cost was estimated at $667 million. and is, according to schedule, going to be completed in the year 2029.〔 ==History== English colonists began settling Poplar Island in the 1630s. It served as a campsite for British warships during the War of 1812.〔 The island had split into three pieces by the late 1800s. At that time, the larger piece was home to the town of Valliant, a community of about 100 residents, with its own post office, school, general store, and a sawmill. Its sawmill may have contributed to the island's erosion by cutting down trees, whose roots held the sandy soil together.〔 By 1920, the last permanent resident had left and the island became a hunting retreat. A clubhouse built on Poplar Island during the 1930s had two presidents among its vacationing guests: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The clubhouse burned down in 1946.〔 Poplar Island's landmass covered more than 1,000 acres in 1847, shaped in a four-mile long crescent, bending around Jefferson Island (east). Erosion eventually reduced its landmass to less than 5 acres by 1990, most of which comprised its southern piece, Coaches Island. Four tiny fragments to the north of Coaches Island were known as North Point, Middle Poplar and South Poplar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poplar Island (Chesapeake Bay)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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