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Nauset Beach is a public beach on the east coast of outer Cape Cod in Orleans, Massachusetts, which extends south from a point opposite Nauset Bay to the mouth of Chatham Harbor. It is popular with swimmers, surfers, boogie boarders and fishermen. It, at times, offers some of the highest waves on Cape Cod.
Nauset Light Beach is a one-mile-long beach on the east coast of outer Cape Cod in Eastham, Massachusetts. It is part of Cape Cod National Seashore. [1] Historic Nauset Light, which visitors can tour, is just inland from the beach. It is one mile north from Coast Guard Beach.
The French Cable Hut is a historic building in Cape Cod National Seashore, near the Nauset Beach Light in Eastham, Massachusetts.Built in 1891, the hut formed a linkage point in the transatlantic telegraph cable of the French Cable Company connecting the cable, where it came ashore near the present site to its main station in Orleans.
Pages in category "Orleans, Massachusetts" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Nauset Beach; Nauset Public Schools; O. Orleans (CDP ...
Orleans (/ ɔːr ˈ l iː n z / or-LEENZ) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, situated along Cape Cod.The population was 6,307 at the 2020 census. [1]For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Orleans, please see the article Orleans CDP.
Pleasant Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean just north of the "elbow" of Cape Cod [1] [2] in Massachusetts. It is bounded on the east by a long peninsula and a barrier island , and harbors 7,825 acres (31.67 km 2 ) of saltwater when the tide is in. [ citation needed ]
Wreck site of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 on Nauset Beach, Orleans, Massachusetts. The Sparrow-Hawk left London, June 1626 loaded with passengers for the Jamestown Colony and Virginia. Certainly, she was of a minimum size that any Company would choose to send across the Atlantic with settlers and passengers, many of whom would be unfamiliar with ...
Nauset Light, officially Nauset Beach Light, [2] is a restored lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore near Eastham, Massachusetts, erected in 1923 using the 1877 tower that was moved here from the Chatham Light. [2] [3] [4] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The tower is a cast-iron plate shell lined with brick and ...