Edgartown is a tourist destination on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, for which it is the county seat.
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16 Facts About Edgartown
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Edgartown is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a portion of the Cape and Islands district.
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Edgartown was one of the primary ports for the whaling industry during the 1800s.
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Edgartown was an old whaling port and is a summer and tourist destination with a multitude of houses built by whaling captains and other prominent people of prior centuries.
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Edgartown was used as the main shooting location for the town of Amity in Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster Jaws.
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Many landmarks and buildings in Edgartown that were filmed in the movie can still be seen today.
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Much of the beach in Edgartown is open to the public with ample parking available.
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Edgartown is ranked 103rd out of 351 communities in the Commonwealth by land area, and is the largest town by land area in Dukes County.
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Edgartown is bordered by Nantucket Sound to the northeast and east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, West Tisbury to the west, and Oak Bluffs to the north.
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Town of Edgartown includes the smaller island of Chappaquiddick, sometimes connected to the rest of Martha'a Vineyard only by a barrier beach which can be breached during storms.
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Edgartown is home to half of the Manuel F Correllus State Forest, which extends into neighboring West Tisbury.
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Edgartown has a humid subtropical climate according to most recent temperature averages, with some resemblance to that of Tampa, Florida, New York City, or Atlanta, Georgia, although the climate more resembles far inland Central Europe.
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Edgartown is among the most northerly locations with a semi-tropical climate in North America.
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Edgartown is governed on the local level by the open town meeting form of government and is led by a Town Administrator and a board of selectmen.
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Edgartown is the site of the Dukes County Courthouse, the only courthouse on the island.
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Edgartown is part of the Martha's Vineyard Regional School District along with Aquinnah, Chilmark, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, and West Tisbury.
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