Figure ll^. — Joseph S. Fay, citizen of Woods Hole who donated land 

 for the U.S. Fisneries Station. Courtesy of the 

 Church of the Messiah, Woods Hole. 



marine laboratory in the United States should also include a school 

 of marine biology. His plans had to be modified to conform with 

 the policies of Congress. He realized great difficulties in obtaining 

 Congressional appropriation for the purchase of land for the laboratory 

 and entered into negotiations with the owners of most desirable 

 tracts of land on the shore of Great Harbor in Woods Hole. At the 

 same time he persuaded a number of influential and wealthy persons 

 to give financial support to his project. Joseph S. Fay, a leading 

 citizen of Woods Hole (fig. 14) donated three acres of land along 

 North Street. The tract comprised a narrow strip between the 

 shores of Great Harbor and North Street (present Bar Neck Road); 

 it extended beyond the end of North Street in a northwesterly 

 direction for about 425 feet along the breakwater on the northern 

 shore of Buzzards Bay and ended at the boundary line of the Pacific 

 Guano Company. Two other parcels of land not contingent with Fay's 

 property, one along Water Street (known also as County Road) of 

 0. 9 acres in area, and the larger piece of 1. 5 acres along the east 



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