[2] Brant Rock and Ocean Bluff were originally inhabited by Native Americans, including members of the Wampanoag tribe of the Algonquian peoples.

The area at the end of Brant Rock village, known as Blackman's Point, was a Native American campground.

Eventually, his daughter married a man named John Hewitt, and he became the owner of Winter's Island.

After the Green Harbor Dyke was built following the Civil War, the tidal salt marshes in the area dried up.

In January 1906, Reginald Fessenden achieved the first two-way transatlantic radiotelegraph transmission, exchanging Morse code messages between his stations in Brant Rock and Machrihanish, Scotland.

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1906, Fessenden transmitted from Brant Rock Station the first radio broadcast of music and entertainment in history.

Radio operators on ships in the Atlantic heard Fessenden playing the song "O Holy Night" on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.

During the summer time, especially along Sunrise Beach and Ocean Bluff, skim boarding and surfing are very popular.

The protagonist, Robert McCall is a Defense Intelligence Agency operative, and the only reprised role in Washington's career.