The island was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 for the significance of its prehistoric archaeological sites.

Fisherman Island is part of a group of islands along the eastern edge of Boothbay, extending roughly southward from Ocean Point,[1] the southernmost mainland point of the town of Boothbay, at the tip of the Linekin Neck peninsula.

[5] The island has evidence of prehistoric human habitation, for which it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

[6] The island is believed to have been a landing point of the exploratory expedition of Englishman George Weymouth in 1605.

[7] Fisherman's was attacked by Native Americans in 1676, late in King Philip's War, as part of broadbased campaign against all English settlements east of the Kennebec River, and was abandoned until 1684.