Shuttered Island
EKelly | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »Peddocks Island is home to an abandoned fort, but it will soon be renewed for public use
By Andrew Ryan|The Boston Globe| February 20, 2011
Hull — A ghost town haunts Peddocks Island.
Branches have sprouted from chimneys. Ovens in a boarded-up bakery have sat cold for decades. And thieves have stolen parts of the wood floor from the basketball court in the gymnasium.
Assailed by ocean wind and scavenged by vandals, this abandoned red-brick village was once Fort Andrews, a handsome century-old military complex with a rich history in a far corner of Boston Harbor.
Battalions of troops trained here for World War I. Thousands of Italian soldiers knew it as a prisoner of war camp during World War II that allowed weekend passes to the North End for home-cooked food and romance with local girls. It even functioned as a backdrop for Martin Scorsese’s 2010 film “Shutter Island”.
To preserve what remains of this fort…
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