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Martha's Vineyard lies 7 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. 1  In 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold, a British fisherman, discovered the Island and named it after his firstborn daughter and the thick vegetation.
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