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Jamestown Island

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Jamestown Island is a pear-shape area of some 1,500 acres, about 2½ miles in length, with woodland and marsh beyond the water. It is separated from the mainland by Back Creek. In more recent times, the wide mouth of this creek has been called the Thorofare.
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