Profile for Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, MA

Oak Bluffs is on Martha's Vineyard

Site for 19th-century religious camp meetings

Home of the Flying Horses Carousel, with horses hand-carved in 1876

Filming location for:
· 1975 movie, "Jaws"

Setting for much of Stephen L. Carter's mystery, "Emperor of Ocean Park"

Local festivals include:

• Tivoli Day Festival - Sept. 15, 2007

Nearby parks & recreation: Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach, Wapatequa Woods, Eastville Point Beach

Historic sites and museums: Cottage Museum

Support for libraries: Local government funding for the local library system, in fiscal years 2001-2002, was above the national average. (See library links below.)

Quotes:
I was glad to have the Vineyard house, a tidy little Victorian on Ocean Park in the town of Oak Bluffs, with lots of frilly carpenter's Gothic along the sagging porch and a lovely morning view of the white band shell set amidst a vast sea of smooth green grass and outlined against a vaster sea of bright blue water. My parents liked to tell how they bought the house for a song back in the sixties, when Martha's Vineyard, and the black middle-class colony that summers there, were still smart and secret.
-- Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter

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5% of Oak Bluffs residents report German ancestry, and 14% report Irish. For more info on local ancestry groups, see the Oak Bluffs ancestry & family history guide.

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At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Oak Bluffs was $23,829, compared with $21,587 nationally.

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32% of Oak Bluffs residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree.

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Oak Bluffs festival dates:

• Tivoli Day Festival - Sept. 15, 2007

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Historic districts in Oak Bluffs include Martha's Vineyard Campground ... View historic districts

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Median rent in Oak Bluffs, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $626.   Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages, were $1,230.

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The average commute time for Oak Bluffs workers is 16 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.

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Hotels in Oak Bluffs include Marthas Vineyard Resorts.

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