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Conspiracy Island is a privately owned tidal island
Tidal island

A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide....
 situated in the Assonet River
Assonet River

The Assonet River is a major tributary of the Taunton River in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States....
 off Berkley, Massachusetts
Berkley, Massachusetts

Berkley is a New England town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,749 at the 2000 census, making it the least populated town in the county....
.

According to the 2000 census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
, Conspiracy Island is uninhabited. In very low tides, the island is actually a peninsula, accessible across a sandy stretch of land connecting it to a nearby beach. Since this island is privately owned, the general public should not access it, even during low tide when the sandy stretch of land is accessible.

A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, published in 1890, describes the history of localities in Massachusetts.






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Conspiracy Island is a privately owned tidal island
Tidal island

A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide....
 situated in the Assonet River
Assonet River

The Assonet River is a major tributary of the Taunton River in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States....
 off Berkley, Massachusetts
Berkley, Massachusetts

Berkley is a New England town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,749 at the 2000 census, making it the least populated town in the county....
.

According to the 2000 census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
, Conspiracy Island is uninhabited. In very low tides, the island is actually a peninsula, accessible across a sandy stretch of land connecting it to a nearby beach. Since this island is privately owned, the general public should not access it, even during low tide when the sandy stretch of land is accessible.

A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, published in 1890, describes the history of localities in Massachusetts. In its listing for Berkley, the book states that the island may have received its name from its connection to King Philip
Metacomet

Metacomet , also known as King Philip or Metacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War....
, himself the namesake of King Philip's War
King Philip's War

King Philip's War, sometimes called Metacomet's War or Metacom's Rebellion, was an armed conflict between indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of present-day southern New England and English colonists and their Native American allies from 1675–1676....
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Geography

According to the Town of Berkley Board of Assessors, the island has a total area of . There is no differentiation in the description between how much is land and how much is water. It is covered predominantly in grass with a few small cedar
Juniper

Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America....
 trees.

Demographics

Conspiracy Island is uninhabited and undeveloped. It is used for camping and swimming by the owners. Public access is not allowed, but is a frequent occurrence.