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GAY HEAD CLIFFS
The Gay Head Cliffs are a natnal landmark. The betiful, lorful layers of clay make up the cliffs. It has been said that fossil bon of whal, mels and wild hors have been found the cliff layers. The Gay Head Lighthoe is perched atop the cliffs. It is the only workg lighthoe on Martha’s Veyard. The Gay Head lighthoe was built 1856. The lighthoe is * gay head massachusetts *
Gay Head Cliffs. The Gay Head Cliffs are a natnal landmark.
The Gay Head Lighthoe is perched atop the cliffs.. The Gay Head lighthoe was built 1856.
1 of 32 of 3Kathere Gendre Photography/Getty ImagDetailsNatural Wonrs, Free, Sightseeg Type1 to 2 hours Time to SpendsrerdThe Aqunah Cliffs – formerly known as Gay Head – is one of Martha's Veyard's most-vised tourist spots, wh b and bike tours ngtg the paved roads the peak summer season.
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Aqunah one of the most betiful towns on Martha's Veyard island wh s scenic Gay Head clay cliffs Aqunah lighthoe Philb Moshup and Lobsterville beach dun great fishg spots and Wampanoag tribe cultural center historic prervatn. * gay head massachusetts *
Or take the upper trails to the top of the cliffs to tch a glimpse of Gay Head Light and nearby Elizabeth Islands.
You'll fd the Aqunah Cliffs off of State Road on the southwtern tip of the island, to the wt of Gay Head Light. The Wampanoag were the first people of anctors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10, 000 years at Aqunah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Veyard), pursug a tradnal enomy based on fishg and agriculture. In 1870, over the unanimo objectns of the Wampanoag Indian rints, the Town of Gay Head was rporated.
From the Wampanoag pot of view, the prcipal effect of the rporatn of Gay Head was the alienatn of Wampanoag Indian District Lands (rervatn), which was vlatn of the Feral Non-Interurse Act of 1790.
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Bee the Tribe ntrolled the Gay Head town ernment for more than a century sce 1870, the effects of this alienatn were largely obscured, and the tegry of the Tribal Common Lands seemed to be aquately protected.
In 1972, however, rponse to the growg potentialy for encroachment on Tribal Common Lands, the Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc. The mon lands clu the Gay Head Cliffs, Herrg Creek, and Lobsterville. The Master Plan followed several years of vtigative efforts and illtrat the prent visn of the future tribal muny Gay Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aqunah) and the Town of Gay Head entered to agreement June of 1995 to jotly provi for the health, safety and welfare of persons on Tribal Lands by providg for the e of police, fire, and medil personnel and rourc the event of disaster, disorr, fire or other emergenci arisg on Tribal Lands.
The Tribe's Aqunah Rangers are EMT certified and provi servic for both Tribal Lands and the up-island 1998, the name of the town was officially changed om Gay Head back to s former Wampanoag name of Aqunah by the state legislature, reprentg regnn of Wampanoag history the regn. Aqunah is the center of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aqunah.