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Falmouth is also the site of Falmouth Hospital, which serves the Upper Cape region. [32] Falmouth has a reputation of being a town that's heavily liberal. Since the 1960s, Falmouth has only been won by republicans Richard Nixon in 1972, and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Since 1988, the town has given wide margins to the democratic candidates.
The first municipal building in Falmouth was the Old Town Hall in the High Street which was built as a Congregational chapel in 1710. [2] In 1866, the corporation moved to its second municipal building, a new town hall on The Moor, now the Palacio Lounge. [3]
It was also used as a courthouse, accommodating both the assizes and the County Court. Following the implementation of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, [4] the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of Falmouth were replaced by an elected council which met in the town hall to discuss issues such as the response to the cholera pandemic of September 1849.
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Falmouth Town Meeting will decide on Nov. 13 whether to limit access to town facilities for pickleball games.
About 300 Falmouth residents signed a petition for the town to dismantle and destroy the police department’s surplus weapons instead. The petitioners feared that the older rifles could ...
Falmouth is a census-designated place (CDP) consisting of the primary settlement in the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population of the CDP was 3,799 at the 2010 census, [2] out of 31,532 in the town as a whole. It was named after Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
Woods Hole is located at the southwestern tip of the town of Falmouth (and of Cape Cod) at (41.526730, -70.663184 The term "Woods Hole" refers to a strait named Woods Hole, which separates Cape Cod from the Elizabeth Islands (specifically, Uncatena Island and Nonamesset Island) and which boats, yachts, and small ferries can use to travel between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay.