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In December 2023, the federal government awarded an initial down payment of $372 million in grants for the renovation of the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges, both of which are nearing their obsolescence. [5] The two bridges connect Cape Cod to Massachusetts proper, arching over the canal and allowing the passage of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. [6]
Gray Gables was an estate in Bourne, Massachusetts, owned by President Grover Cleveland that served as his Summer White House from 1893 to 1896. It was later converted into the Gray Gables Ocean House hotel, which was destroyed in a fire in 1973.
The Wayside – built circa 1717; later the home of Samuel Whitney, a Minuteman who fought the British regulars at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775; home of Louisa May Alcott and her family 1845–1848; home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family 1852–1870; purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, author Harriett ...
A 2014 Cape Cod Commission report identified the Bourne Rotary as a Barnstable County high-crash location using 2006 to 2008 state transportation data. There were 71 crashes during that time or 1. ...
Buzzards Bay is located at (41.751364, -70.613563 Along with Bournedale and Sagamore Beach, it is one of three communities in Barnstable County located on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal.
Bourne (/ b ɔːr n / BORN) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.The population was 20,452 at the 2020 census. [1]For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne (CDP), Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore Beach.
The village of Bourne is to the north, and Pocasset village is to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Monument Beach CDP has a total area of 3.5 square miles (9.0 km 2 ), of which 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2 ) is land, and 0.89 square miles (2.3 km 2 ) (25.72%) is water.
Also called the Jonathan Corwin House, this was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin and is the only structure still standing in Salem, Massachusetts, with direct ties to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The house is now a museum operated by the City of Salem, and is open seasonally. Hoxie House: Sandwich c. 1675: One of the oldest houses on Cape Cod.