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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 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.
The Buttonball Tree is an American sycamore located on N Main St. in Sunderland. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.7 square miles (38.2 km 2), of which 14.2 square miles (36.9 km 2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 3.53%, is water. [4]
The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management limits its definition of the South Shore to the municipalities between Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, which includes Atlantic coastal and coastal watershed areas "from the three-mile (5 km) limit of the state territorial sea to 100 feet (30 m) beyond the first major land transportation route encountered (a road, highway, rail line, etc.)". [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. [5] [6] The dune shacks are mentioned by Henry David Thoreau in his book "Cape Cod" published in 1865. [5]
Sunderland Bridge (Massachusetts) Sunderland Center Historic District This page was last edited on 22 September 2013, at 06:22 (UTC). ...
Hyannis / ˌ h aɪ ˈ æ n ɪ s / is the largest of the seven villages in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.It is the commercial and transportation hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban area at the 1990 census.
The Dennis Beaches, are a series of beaches in Dennis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. There are a total of eighteen beaches; sixteen located on the ocean and two located on fresh water ponds. Eight of the ocean beaches, Mayflower, Corporation, Bayview, Howes Street, Chapin Memorial, Cold Storage and Harbor View, are located on the northern (bay ...