Oyster Harbors is a gated community within the village of Osterville, Massachusetts. It is located on Grand Island.
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Oyster Harbors was first inhabited by the Wampanoag tribe when they first settled on Cape Cod.[1] In 1658 Oyster Island was reserved to the Indians, but after an expensive lawsuit, the natives were forced to sell to the Lovell family in 1737.[1] The island thus remained uninhabited for two centuries, used only for salt works and pasture.[1]
The first permanent house on the island was built in 1904 as a hunting lodge for Harvard University Professor William Channing, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his American history publications.[1] Not soon after, Boston families started to erect informal summer houses.[1] In 1925 Frederick Olmsted and his brother Ross laid out a development around a golf course designed by Ross.[1] Grand Island's name was then officially changed to Oyster Harbors.[1]
The oldest house on the island, the Nymphas Marston house of about 1680 was actually moved there from the mainland.[1]
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