Cape Cod Attractions & Historic Sites
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Sandwich - the oldest town on Cape Cod
- Sandwich Glass Museum
- Dexter Grist Mill
- Heritage Plantation
- Hoxie House
- Thornton W. Burgess Museum
- Green Briar Nature Center/ Green Briar Jam Kitchen
- Sandwich Fish Hatchery
- Sandwich
Chamber of Commerce
Barnstable - stretches from Cape Cod Bay on the north to Nantucket
Sound on the south
- Sturgis Library
- Court House
- Cahoon Museum of American Art
- John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum - The John F. Kennedy
Hyannis Museum is a multimedia exhibit designed to
open a window on the days JFK spent on Cape Cod;
days relaxing with family, days playing football
with PT109 buddies, days spent sailing on the ocean
to which he was so constantly drawn.
- Kennedy Memorial
- Osterville and Centerville Historical Society
- The Statue of Iyannough on the Village Green in
Hyannis
- Mad Jack Perical's grave site
- Barnstable
Chamber of Commerce
Bourne - divided
by the Cape Cod Canal
- Aptucxet Trading Post and Museum
- National Marine Life Center Visitor Center
- The US Army Corps of Engineers Center
- Briggs-McDermott House and Alonzo Booth Blacksmith
Shop
- Bourne
Chamber of Commerce
Falmouth - in
the early days, known as Suchanessett, which translated
to "Home of the black clam by the water"
- Congregational Church which contains a bell made
by Paul Revere
- The birthplace of Katherine Lee Bates who wrote
the Hymn AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL
- Woods Hole Historical Museum
- Cape Cod Children's Museum
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Wood Hole Aquarium
- Nobska Light at Woods Hole (built in 1828)
- Falmouth
Chamber of Commerce
Mashpee - named
for the tribe of Indians which settled there long before
the white man ever heard of Cape Cod
Yarmouth - Known
for blending the past with the present, Yarmouth offers
a rich historical experience along with the excitement
of today's family.
- The Captain Bangs Hallet House
- Windmill Park & Historic Bass River
- The Baxter Mill
- The Kelley Chapel
- Bass River Beach
- Yarmouth
Chamber of Commerce
Hyannis - contains
some of the finest examples of Cape Cod architecture
- Captain Bangs Hallet House
- Old Stagecoach Inn
- The Judah Baker Windmill
- Winslow Crocker House
- Baxter Grist Mill
- Hyannis
Chamber of Commerce
Dennis - named
for its favorite minister, the Reverend Josiah Dennis
who died in 1763
- Scargo Hill and Scargo Lake
- Shiverick Shipyard
- The Salt Works
- Cape Cod Discovery Museum
- Cape Museum of Fine Arts
- Dennis
Chamber of Commerce
Harwich - claims
to have been home to 124 sea captains, today the town
is know mainly for cranberries
- Brooks Academy Museum
- Wychmere Harbor
- 1812 Cannon at the entrance to Brooks Park
- Old Powder House in front of the Brooks Academy
- Harwich Chamber
of Commerce
Brewster - became
a town in 1803 and was named after William Brewster,
of the Pilgrims
- Stoney Brook Grist Mill
- Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
- Nickerson State Park
- The Brewster Herring Run
- Elijah Cobb House
- Brewster
Chamber of Commerce
Chatham - was
originally roamed by the Sauquatucket and the Monomoyick
Indian tribes
Orleans - was
incorporated as a town in 1797 and named for the Frenchman,
Due d'Orleans
- Rock Harbor (was the scene of a naval encounter
during the war of 1812)
- Orleans Historical Society
- The French Cable Station
- Orleans
Chamber of Commerce
Eastham - was
settled in 1644 by seven men who had been granted permission
to leave the Pilgrim group at Plymouth in order to search
for an area large enough to farm
- Boat Meadow Creek
- First Encounter Beach (it was here, back in 1620,
that Miles Standish and his little army landed in
a shallop launched from the MAYFLOWER and first encountered
the Indians)
- Old Grist Mill
- Cape Cod National Seashore/Salt Pond Visitors Center
- Schoolhouse Museum
- Coast Guard Beach
- Nauset Light
- Swift-Daley House
- Eastham Windmill (the oldest windmill on Cape Cod)
- Fort Hill
- Eastham
Chamber of Commerce
Wellfleet -
has retained a great deal of the charm for which it
was renowned when it was one of the most important whaling
towns of the Cape
- Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary
- Marconi Site/Beach (containing a model of the Marconi
Wireless Station, also the site where Pirate Black
Sam Bellamy's ship, the Whydah, sunk)
- Wellfleet Center
- Wellfleet
Chamber of Commerce
Truro - it is here
that you may observe more of the great kettle holes
left by the glacier
- Corn Hill (where the Pilgrims came after exploring
for two days on the ocean side to signal the MAYFLOWER
that they were safe. It is here that they reportedly
found Indian corn in a cache, which they took and
planted in Plymouth.)
- Highland Light
- Head-of-the Meadow Beach (at low tide, about 200
yards to your left, you can see the hull of a German
bark, THE GRANCIS, which went aground in 1873, while
transporting sugar to our shores.)
- Truro Historical Museum in Old Highland House
- Winslow Crocker House
- Truro Chamber of Commerce-
Route 6A, Truro, MA 02666, 508/487-6757
Provincetown - or
"P-town" as the Cape Codders prefer to call it. It was
in this snug harbor that the MAYFLOWER, with its weary
band of 102 passengers, found shelter and remained for
an entire month, exploring the Cape before sailing on
to Plymouth.
- Provincetown Harbor (this harbor is where the famous
Mayflower Compact, on
of the first government documents in our history,
was drawn up and signed.)
- Pilgrim Monument and Museum
- Province Lands Visitor Center
- Macmillan Wharf
- Provincetown
Chamber of Commerce
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