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Why is it called Rattlesnake Island?
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07-07-2005, 05:44 PM
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Not since the early 1940's
I understood that there were Rattlesnakes on the island until the early 1940's. I heard that wild pigs were let loose to root them out. They were probably Timber Rattlesnakes aka
Crotalus horridus
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