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Tangier Island off of Virginia, in the Chesapeake:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-isla...

Also, for what it's worth:

> Some people have characterised Tangier’s way of speaking as ‘Elizabethan’ or ‘Restoration’ English, but that’s nonsense. Languages aren’t static and the Tangier dialect has changed a lot because of its isolation. It’s a distinct creation of its own," Shores said.

Perhaps you’re thinking of Ocracoke, North Carolina[0]

[0]https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-th...

Yeah, but there is a real difference between simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Traditional are more ornamental/complicated while simplified are ... simplified/minimalist .