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Provincetown (/ ˈ p r ɒ v ɪ n s ˌ t aʊ n /) is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States census, [3] Provincetown has a summer population as high as 60,000. [4]
Town Middlesex Representative town meeting 37,006 16.1 sq mi (41.70 km 2) 15.1 sq mi (39.11 km 2) 1781 Andover: Town Essex Open town meeting 36,569 32.1 sq mi (83.14 km 2) 31.0 sq mi (80.29 km 2) 1646 Chelmsford: Town Middlesex Representative town meeting 36,392 23.2 sq mi (60.09 km 2) 22.7 sq mi (58.79 km 2) 1655 Watertown: City Middlesex ...
The Wampanoag people inhabited and used all of the lands within the national seashore, including the dunes area, prior to European settlement in the 1600s. [4]The Massachusetts Humane Society built some of the earliest extant structures in the dunes area in 1872 to house members of the United States Life-Saving Service, whose mission was to assist survivors of shipwrecks.
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Location: High Pole Hill Road, Provincetown, Massachusetts Designer: Willard T. Sears: Type: Campanile: Material: Granite: Height: 252 feet 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (77 m); Rises 350 ft (107 m) above sea level
The Hyannis Port Historic District encompasses the historic heart of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, an area that was intensively developed as a summer resort community beginning in the later decades of the 19th century. The district is about 100 acres (40 ha) in size, and extends from nearly Scudder Avenue in the west to Ocean Avenue in the east.
Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor. Its population was 10,072 at the 2020 census . [ 1 ] Hull is the smallest town by land area in Plymouth County and the eleventh smallest in the state. [ 2 ]
The town hall was built in 1927-28 to a design by Michael Dyer and Company, whose later work included several other notable municipal buildings in Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick building is laid in Flemish bond, with paneled concrete corner quoins. Like the school, it has a hip roof, denticulated cornice, and wide frieze.