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The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. It mostly follows tidal rivers widened to 480 ...
Jeremiah's Gutter, also called Jeremy’s Dream was a canal located on the border of Orleans and Eastham, Massachusetts, the first canal to cut across the peninsula of Cape Cod. It connected Cape Cod Bay in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It was active for over 100 years, although it gradually fell out of use and was replaced by the ...
This is a route-map template for the Cape Cod Canal, a waterway in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
For anyone hoping to catch a glimpse of the tall ship traversing the Cape Cod Canal on the way to her home berth alongside State Pier at Pilgrim Memorial State Park in Plymouth, her progress can ...
There are currently two automobile bridges and one railway bridge that cross the Cape Cod Canal, each of which opened in 1935. An earlier set of bridges, also two for automobiles and one for rail traffic, opened between 1911 and 1913. Construction of the Cape Cod Canal began in 1909; the canal initially opened in 1914 and was completed in 1916.
The current tower, one of the first made of cast iron, was built in 1849. After the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in 1914, most vessels bound from south of the Cape to the Boston area took the shorter and safer route through the canal, so there was much less traffic past the light and the light was deactivated in 1923.
The Bourne Rotary, shown here in May, is on the south side of the Bourne Bridge. Pavement upgrades and widening work at the rotary amounting to about $1.8M in cost is expected to begin in the ...
The channel at Pollock Rip Shoals is centered about three miles (4.8 km) east of the southerly end of Monomoy Island in Chatham, Massachusetts. [1] The channel, which runs east–west, is about eight miles (13 km) south of the Chatham Lighthouse. [1]