Malaga Island
photo by Jim Cerny
Malaga, a small 2.5 acre island, is indistinguishable as part of Smuttynose together forming a sandy cove.
It is likely that Spanish sailors named the island after a port city in their homeland.
Malaga Island is connected to Smuttynose by a 300-foot-long breakwater that was built by Captain Samuel Haley in the late 1700s. That construction was supposedly financed by four bars of silver that Captain Haley found among the rocks there.