Martha's Vineyard is believed to have been named by Bartholomew Gosnold. Under the patronage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Gosnold sailed to find and gather the wealth from the New World and arrived at the island in 1602. The island is said to have been named for his daughter and the wild grapes that grew there in great profusion. This is now the land of gingerbread, of storybook decorative details on houses so fanciful you'd think you were looking at dollhouses, It's the land of teeny-tiny rainbow-colored Victorian cottages with high-peaked roofs, dainty verandas, and themed embellishments on the balconies, turrets, cornices, and gables, a lot of which are arguably over the top.