France and the United Kingdom agreed to support Poland and in August of 1939, German troops began to gather on the Polish border. By September 1st, Germany launched an invasion of Poland. 16.
Plum Island sits in Long Island Sound, one end pointing toward the Connecticut coast and the other toward Long Island's North Fork. By ferry, it is over an hour from either shore. An old lighthouse seems to invite tourists but no outsiders are allowed on the secured facility.
Overlooking Orient Point and the Plum Gut Channel is a lighthouse built on Plum Island in 1869. PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. â There have been comparisons to the H.G. Wells novel, âThe Island of Dr. Moreau,â a nod from Hannibal Lecter in âThe Silence of the Lambs,â and a murder mystery called âPlum Island,â by Nelson DeMille, in 1997.