Deer Island

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Deer Island is a peninsula in Boston Harbor best known for housing one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in the United States and for its history as a former immigration and quarantine station.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Deer Island canonical 4
Charlestown Peninsula 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
landform
peninsula
administeredBy Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
connectedBy causeway
connectedTo Winthrop, Massachusetts
country United States of America
surface form: United States
county Suffolk County
environmentalRole improving Boston Harbor water quality
feature breakwaters
grassy open spaces
rocky shoreline
shoreline paths
hasAccess pedestrian access
road access from Winthrop
hasFacility Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant
hasOperator Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
hasRecreation fishing
jogging
picnicking
walking
hasStructure digesters of Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant
hasTrail perimeter walking path
hasUse public parkland
hasViewOf Boston skyline
Logan International Airport
historicalUse almshouse
house of correction
immigration processing
quarantine of arriving immigrants
knownFor former immigration station
former quarantine station
wastewater treatment
locatedIn Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
United States of America
surface form: United States
nearestCity Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
openTo public
partOf Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
surface form: Boston Harbor Islands

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
surface form: Boston Harbor Islands park system

Boston Harbor cleanup program
state Massachusetts
usedFor recreation
wastewater treatment
waterBody Atlantic Ocean
Boston Harbor

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boston Harbor contains Deer Island
Boston park system hasPart Deer Island
Breed's Hill partOf Deer Island
this entity surface form: Charlestown Peninsula