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Craigville Beach is located on Nantucket Sound. [1]It is located in Craigville (part of Centerville, Massachusetts) and is a very popular tourist hot spot on Cape Cod.Unlike many private Cape beaches which offer parking to residents only, Craigville is a public beach area, available to non-residents for a daily parking fee.
Eastham is located on the "forearm" of Cape Cod, and is 23 miles (37 km) south of Provincetown, the same distance east-northeast of Barnstable, 38 miles (61 km) east of the Sagamore Bridge, and 92 miles (148 km) (by land) southeast of Boston. Approximately one-third of the town is located within the Cape Cod National Seashore. There are several ...
After the dredging for the Cape Cod Canal project was started in 1884, Sagamore Beach became the center of commerce for the town. [1] The population significantly increased in 1905 when the Christian Endeavor Society , a Christianity promoting group, founded a summer colony in the region, and some of the Victorian homes built by the colony ...
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 ...
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod is a book by naturalist writer Henry Beston that chronicles a year Beston spent living on the dunes of Cape Cod. It was published in 1928 by Doubleday and Doran and later by Henry Holt and Company .
In 1973, a cliff collapse at Long Nook Beach claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy. According to a Cape Cod Standard-Times story, the boy was buried under 20 feet of sand when part of a 165-foot ...
The outer beach, or "backside," of Cape Cod has been the notorious graveyard for more than 3,000 ships since the wreck of the Sparrowhawk in 1626. The high cost in lives and property demanded by the sands of Cape Cod, led to the establishment of the Massachusetts Humane Society in 1786, the first organization in the nation devoted to the rescue and assistance of shipwrecked mariners.
A Cape Cod artist custom-carved this one-of-a-kind slate apron-front sink to incorporate Chatham, Massachusetts, local icons: a windmill, whale, lighthouse, and the word “riptide.” Get the Look: