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During this time, it was a large repair facility for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, as well as possibly being the largest employer on Cape Cod, [5] employing up to 1,400 people at a time. The plant also was responsible for the design and patent of the 40-8 boxcar design used by many trains. [1]
Lincoln was born in 1870 in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and his mother moved the family to Chelsea, Massachusetts, a manufacturing city outside Boston, after the death of his father. Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy.
The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; its creation shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles (100 km). [ 9 ] Cape Cod extends 65 miles (105 km) into the Atlantic Ocean, with a breadth of between 1–20 miles (1.6–32.2 km), and covers more than 400 miles (640 km) of shoreline. [ 10 ]
Cape Cod Fourth of July fireworks, festivals and parades Friday, June 28. Mashpee: The town’s annual community picnic and fireworks are set to take place from 5 to 9 p.m. on June 28 at Mashpee ...
During the meeting, which was held with Cape stakeholders at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School, MassDOT officials underscored the importance of the phased approach in order to secure the $4 ...
US president Barack Obama in the Oval Office (2014) with two of Hopper's 1930s South Truro works, Cobb's Barns (upper) and Burly Cobb's House. Since 1930, Hopper and Jo had spent every summer in South Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where Hopper began focusing on the Cape's unique sunlight and, in 1930 alone, painted such works as South Truro Church, Corn Hill, Hills, and South Truro. [1]
On returning home, Greene turned her experiences as a teacher into a quasi-autobiographical novel that was published in 1881 as Cape Cod Folks. [2] It received good reviews; critics found it fresh and lively, an admirable piece of genre writing—although one newspaper observed that it was not so much a novel as "a triumph of character ...
Lobster doughnuts, barbecue, movie soundtracks, bake sale, a paranormal circus. We take a look at what Cape Cod offers for Labor Day weekend.