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Indigenous peoples have been living on Cape Cod for at least 12,000 years. The historic Algonquian-speaking Wampanoag are one of 69 tribes of the original Wampanoag Nation; they are the Native people encountered by the English colonists of the New Plymouth Colony in the 17th century. The Wampanoag also controlled a considerable amount of ...
Those darn invasive plants can really take a toll on Cape Cod gardens ... "'Invasive' plants are non-native species that have spread into native or minimally managed plant systems in Massachusetts ...
Avant House of the Wampanoag people of Mashpee, Massachusetts.. Cape Cod was occupied for more than ten thousand years by indigenous peoples.The historic Algonquian-speaking Wampanoag were the native people encountered by the English colonists here and in the area of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century.
Roughly 30 Native American tribes were in what is now the southeastern Massachusetts area, with the Wampanoag tribe among them being the most populous. [7] [1] A heavily trodden trail used by native tribes to reach the eastern reaches of Cape Cod in the 17th century crossed the region. The European settlers, making the perilous journey across ...
Truro / ˈ t r ɜːr oʊ / is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro.Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". [1]
Barnstable County is a county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.At the 2020 census, the population was 228,996. [1] The county seat is Barnstable. [2] The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands (some adjacent islands are in Dukes County and Nantucket County).
The following is a list of old-growth forests in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Old growth is defined as those forests that have not been logged (and have not been significantly disturbed by human beings) in the last 150 years. "Virgin forests" are those old-growth forests that show no sign of having ever been logged.
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 ]