Gould Island (Rhode Island)
Coordinates: 41°32′0.87″N 71°20′39.99″W / 41.5335750°N 71.3444417°W
Gould Island lies east of Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The island is a part of the town of Jamestown, Rhode Island, and has a land area of 55.3 acres (22.4 ha).
Native Americans named the island "Aquopimokuk". In 1657 Thomas Gould, a colonist, purchased the island from the Native Americans. The island remained privately owned until the early twentieth century. Gould sold the island to Thomas Cranston. Later owners included the Carr family and Joseph Wanton, Jr., who lost the property for having Loyalist sympathies during the American Revolution. In 1778 during the American Revolution, Captain Wallace, a British naval leader, constructed "Owl's Nest", a military fort, on the island. In 1803 Caleb Gardner purchased the forfeited island. A lighthouse was built on the island in 1889 (it was demolished in 1960).
Several successive private owners owned the island throughout the nineteenth century. In 1909 Richard L. Howell purchased the island, and his daughter and son-in-law Percy D. Haughton inherited the island and Howell's McKim, Mead, and White house after Howell's death. Percy Haughton was Harvard College's football coach, and he used the island for training the football team.
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