Photo By/Credit
Hillebrand, Steve/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
12/01/2005Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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Two herds of Chincoteague ponies graze freely on Assateague Island. Legend has it that the ponies arrived on Chincoteague from a Spanish ship that had run aground during a storm in 1750. Historians believe they are descended from horses brought by settlers in the 1600’s.
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