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Provincetown (/ ˈ p r ɒ v ɪ n s ˌ t aʊ n /) is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States census, [3] Provincetown has a summer population as high as 60,000. [4]
Location: High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown, Massachusetts Designer: Willard T. Sears: Type: Campanile: Material: Granite: Height: 252 feet 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (77 m); Rises 350 ft (107 m) above sea level
Town Middlesex Representative town meeting 37,006 16.1 sq mi (41.70 km 2) 15.1 sq mi (39.11 km 2) 1781 Andover: Town Essex Open town meeting 36,569 32.1 sq mi (83.14 km 2) 31.0 sq mi (80.29 km 2) 1646 Chelmsford: Town Middlesex Representative town meeting 36,392 23.2 sq mi (60.09 km 2) 22.7 sq mi (58.79 km 2) 1655 Watertown: City Middlesex ...
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The Wampanoag people inhabited and used all of the lands within the national seashore, including the dunes area, prior to European settlement in the 1600s. [4]The Massachusetts Humane Society built some of the earliest extant structures in the dunes area in 1872 to house members of the United States Life-Saving Service, whose mission was to assist survivors of shipwrecks.
Pleasure Island was an amusement park located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The park, billed as the " Disneyland of the Northeast ", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was in business from 1959 to 1969. During its short existence it went through several owners [ 1 ] and was financially handicapped by New England 's relatively short summers.
This airport is operated by the Town of Provincetown on land leased from the United States National Park Service. [1] The airport is used for general aviation and by one commercial airline, Cape Air, which operates non-stop flights of 25 minutes duration to Boston's Logan International Airport. During the off-season, Cape Air operates three ...
The most restrictive definition of the Greater Boston area is the region administered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. [17] The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area.