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Stretching along Massachusetts Route 6A from the Barnstable line in the west to White Brook in the east, the district includes almost 300 buildings on 50 acres (20 ha). It includes the two villages of Yarmouth Center and Yarmouthport, which were important 18th and 19th century centers of civic and economic activity. [2]
Mid 20th Century Modern Residential Architecture on Outer Cape Cod MPS 105: Josiah Tobey House: Josiah Tobey House: December 9, 1994 : 67 Oxbow Rd. Falmouth: 106: Town Boundary Marker: Town Boundary Marker: September 18, 1987
Yarmouth (/ ˈ j ɑːr m ə θ / YAR-məth) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod. The population was 25,023 at the 2020 census . The town is made up of three major villages: South Yarmouth , West Yarmouth , and Yarmouth Port .
The route in Cape Cod was also assigned in 1922 as a primary New England route. The road from Bourne to Orleans along the south shore of the Cape was the easternmost section of New England Route 3. At the end of 1926, the U.S. Highway system was established and several of the primary New England routes were redesignated as U.S. routes.
It is located south of the mid-Cape Highway (Massachusetts Route 6), and is roughly bounded by County Ave., Willow St., Wood Rd., and Camp Ground Pond. Although Methodist Episcopalians had been holding camp meetings on Cape Cod since 1819, an earlier site in Eastham was logistically difficult to reach. This site was chosen in 1862, in part due ...
Maritime industry began a decline in the second half of the 19th century, but the arrival of the railroads heralded the beginning of the area's conversion to a summer resort destination, and the area around Main Street and the bridge across the Bass River took shape as the main village center of South Yarmouth with the construction of a number ...
The Sunderland Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of the farming town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, on the plains of the Connecticut River.The multi-acre district runs along North and South Main Street (Massachusetts Route 47), roughly from Old Amherst Road to North Silver Lane, and includes Bridge Street and the Sunderland Bridge across the river.
U.S. Route 6, the Mid-Cape Highway, is to the south, beyond which are the CDPs of South Yarmouth and West Yarmouth. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Yarmouth Port CDP has a total area of 6.47 square miles (16.76 km 2), of which 6.04 square miles (15.65 km 2) is land, and 0.43 square miles (1.11 km 2) (6.86%) is water. [2]