Cape Cod

by Robert Finch; United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications

Index

Numbers in italics refer to photographs, illustrations, or maps.

• Andrea Doria, [61]
• Atwood-Higgins House, [38-39]
• Barnstable, [61], [94]
• Beaches, [25], [37], [40], [73], [92], [99], [101]
• Beech Forest, [97], [99]
• Belmont, August, [65], [106]
• Beston, Henry, [7], [14], [71], [72], [73], [109]
• Bicycling, [24], [96], [101], [105]
• Birds, [66-67], [81], [98-99], [107], [111];
• shooting, [70];
• watching, [98-99], [101]
• Blackfish Creek, [30], [58]
• Boating, [92], [100]
• Botkin, Henry, [33]
• Bourne, [106];
• bridge, [65], [76]
• Bradford, William, [31]
• Brewster, [58], [91], [100-101]
• Bridges, [65], [76]
• Buzzards Bay, [70], [106]
• Cape Cod, [20-21];
• Bay, [46], [53], [58];
• Branch Railroad, [70];
• Canal, [61], [62-63], [65], [106];
• history, [69];
• House, [7], [38-39];
• Light, [62], [64], [104];
• Museum of Natural History, [80], [100], [101];
• School of Art, [70];
• Stranding Network, [80]
• Cape Cod National Seashore:
• camping, [91];
• founding of, [17-18], [80];
• headquarters, [103];
• location, [86];
• map, [88-89];
• recreation, [92-99];
• transportation, [87];
• visitor centers, [90]
• Captains, ship, [50-51], [58-59]
• Channing, William, [69]
• Chatham, [28-29], [62], [64], [65], [93], [100], [101]
• Clams, [93]
• Cleveland, Grover, [70]
• Coast Guard, U.S., [64], [65];
• Beach, [24], [25], [30], [32], [40], [92]
• Cobb, Elijah, [50]
• Columbia, [50]
• Commerce, [47], [52-53], [69], [75], [76]
• Cottages, summer, [76]
• Cranberries, [68], [74-75], [76]
• Crosby, Charles, [50]
• Crosby, James E., [50]
• de Bry, Theodore, [32]
• de Champlain, Samuel, [32], [101]
• Dennis, [61]
• Dunes, [4-5], [29], [30], [46]
• Eastham, [34], [69], [101-2];
• Coast Guard Station, [36];
• visitor center, [30], [90], [102].
• See also [Nauset Marsh]
• Eldridge, Asa, [51]
• Elizabeth Islands, [24], [26]
• Environmental education, [80], [90], [100]
• Erosion, [28-29], [36-37], [40-41]
• Fish, [32], [42-44], [45-47], [81];
• industry, [53], [54-55], [93]
• Federal Migratory Bird Treaties, 1916, [70]
• Gale, October 1841, [59], [64]
• Geology, [23-30], [36-41], [46];
• maps, [26-29]
• Georges Banks, [25], [59], [64]
• Glaciation, [7], [23-24], [26-27], [46].
• See also [Geology]
• Golf, [71]
• Gosnold, Bartholomew, [46-47]
• Grand Banks, [47], [59]
• Grass, [30-31], [42], [43], [45], [80]
• Gravestones, [51], [59]
• “Graveyards of the Atlantic”, [59].
• See also [Shipwrecks]
• Great Beach, The, [71]
• Great Blizzard, 1978, [15], [40]
• Great Island, [30], [103]
• Great Pond, [27]
• Gulf Stream, [46]
• Hall, Henry, [74]
• Harding Beach, [101]
• Hay, John, [71], [109]
• Head of the Meadow Beach, [25]
• Herring River, [15]
• Highland Light, [62], [64], [71], [104]
• Hiking, [96-97], [103], [104]
• Hitchcock, Edward, [46]
• Horseback riding, [97]
• House on Nauset Marsh, [71]
• Howe, James, [76]
• Howes, Osborn, [50]
• Jeremy Point, [28], [30]
• Jonathan Young Windmill, [101]
• Kendrick, John, [50]
• Kennedy, John F., [17]
• Kittredge, Henry, [58], [59]
• Labrador Current, [46]
• Laurentide ice sheet, [23], [26]
• Lieutenant Island, [58]
• Life Saving Service, U.S., [62-63], [64], [65], [105]
• Lighthouses, [17], [62-63], [64], [65]
• Lodging, [91]
• Lower Cape, [24], [25], [46], [86]
• Maps, [26-29], [33-35], [60], [87-89]
• Mashpee, [106]
• Marconi, Guglielmo, [78]
• Marconi Wireless Station, [28], [78-79], [97], [103]
• Martha’s Vineyard, [26], [107]
• Mayflower, [34-35], [106]
• Messenger, [60]
• Metacomet (King Philip), [36]
• Mid-Cape Highway, [76]
• Monomoy Island, [30], [40], [59], [81];
• Point, [28];
• National Wildlife Refuge, [80], [101]
• Morgan, Charles W., [52], [53]
• Myers, Rowena, [13-14]
• Nantucket, [26], [46], [107];
• Sound, [53], [70]
• Native Americans, [31], [32-33], [45], [54]
• Nauset:
• Beach, [30], [73], [100];
• Light, [17], [62-63];
• Marsh, [8], [10-11], [19], [71], [96], [103]
• Nearby attractions, [106-7]
• Nickerson, Roland C. State Park, [91], [101]
• North Beach, [22], [28-29], [30]
• Old Harbor Life Saving Museum, [105]
• Old Schoolhouse Museum, [102]
• Oliver, Mary, [71]
• O’Neill, Eugene, [28], [71]
• Orleans, [93], [100]
• Outer Beach, [7], [15], [25], [86]
• Outer Cape, [28], [37], [40]
• Outermost House, The, [40], [71], [72-73], [109]
• Paddock, Ichabod, [53]
• Pamet:
• Harbor, [30];
• River, [24], [29]
• Paulding, [61]
• Peaked Hill Bars, [41], [59];
• Coast Guard Station, [28-29]
• Penniman, Augusta, [49], [109]
• Penniman, Edward, [49], [102-3]
• Penniman House, [49], [102]
• Pilgrim Monument, [2-3], [105]
• Pilgrims, [33], [34-35], [65], [102], [104], [106]
• Pine, pitch, [31]
• Plants, [42], [43]
• Pleasant Bay, [29], [70]
• Plymouth, [34-35], [102], [106]
• Ponds:
• kettle, [24], [25], [27];
• salt, [27], [30]
• Population, [31], [32-33], [45], [54], [69-71], [76], [86], [104].
• Portland, [61]
• Prence, Thomas, [102]
• Province Lands, [29], [46], [96];
• Visitor Center, [90], [95], [104-5]
• Provincetown, [2-3], [48], [54], [70-71], [77], [93], [94], [104-5];
• Harbor, [30], [47], [53], [65];
• Hook, [28], [30], [41];
• Players, [70-71];
• topography, [30], [40-41], [59]
• Race Point, [59], [62], [64], [95], [99], [104-5];
• Ranger Station, [90]
• Railroad, [65], [70], [76]
• Red Jacket, [51]
• Revenue Cutter Service, [64]
• Rich, Shebnah, [47]
• Richardson, Wyman, [71]
• Roosevelt, Theodore, [79]
• Safety & health, [108]
• Sagamore bridge, [65], [76]
• Saltonstall, Leverett, [17]
• Salt Pond Visitor Center, [24], [90], [102]
• Salt marshes, [30-31], [42-43], [45], [80]
• Saltworks, [56-57]
• Sandy Neck, [53]
• Sears, John, [56]
• Shipping artifacts, [50-51]
• Shipwrecks, [59], [60-61], [64-65]
• Smith, John, [47]
• Smith, Walter, [71]
• South Wellfleet, [59]
• Sparrowhawk, [59], [60-61]
• Speedwell, [35]
• Stage Harbor, [32], [33]
• Standish, Myles, [34], [36], [65], [102], [104], [106]
• Stockholm, [61]
• Stony Brook Mill, [100-101]
• Storms, [15], [28-29], [40], [59], [64]
• Thoreau, Henry David, [54], [57], [58], [69], [71], [72], [109]
• Tides, [15]
• Topography, [24-31], [36-41], [59], [76], [80-81], [101], [102]
• Town crier, [71]
• Trails, [96], [97], [103], [104]
• Transportation, [87]
• Truro, [24], [61], [64], [69], [76], [104]
• Turner, C. E., [50]
• Ulysses, [60-61]
• Upper Cape, [24], [88]
• Wampanoag Indians, [32-33], [45], [54], [106]
• Washington, George, [65]
• Water sports, [92]
• Weather, [86-87]
• Wellfleet, [30], [54], [69], [93], [103];
• topography, [24], [101];
• whaling, [48], [58]
• Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, [103]
• Whales, [48], [58], [80], [94-95]
• Whaling, [48-49], [53], [58], [104]
• Whydah, [59], [61]
• Wildflowers, [82-83]
• Windmills, [47], [56-57], [101], [102]
• Wireless telegraphy, [28], [78-79], [97], [103]
• Woodlands, [31], [46]
• Yarmouth, [61]

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Finch, Robert, 1943-

Cape Cod: its natural and cultural history: a Guide to Cape Cod National Seashore. Massachusetts / by Robert Finch; produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

p. cm.—(Official National Park handbook, Cape Cod National Seashore; handbook 148)

Includes index.

1. Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.)—Guidebooks. I. United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications. II. Title. III. Series: Handbook (United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications); 148.

F72.C3F55 1993 917.44920443-dc20 92-40414 CIP Supt. of Docs, no.: 129.9/5: 148

ISBN 0-912627-56-5

⚝ GPO: 1997—417-646/40503
Printed on recycled paper
Reprint 1997

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U.S. Department of the Interior

The National Park Service expresses its appreciation to all those persons who made the preparation and production of this handbook possible. The Service especially thanks Eastern National Park and Monument Association and The Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore for their financial support of this publication. All photos and artwork not credited below come from the files of Cape Cod National Seashore. Some materials are restricted against commercial reproduction. The book was designed by Richard Sheaff.

John Arsenault 95 whale watchers

Frank Balthis, 106 Mayflower

Tony Bonanno 62-63 Nauset C. G. Station, 104 rowboats

Tom Cawley, 43 sea-lavender and terrapin, 66-67 snowy egret, ruddy turnstone, and willet, 82-83 nightshade, heather, beach plum, cactus, dewberry, St. Johnswort, bellflower, mayflower, aster, laurel, star-flower, and cypress spurge

Concord Free Public Library 73 Thoreau

Donald Demers 38-39 Atwood-Higgins art, mortise

R. R. Donnelley GeoSystems 87 map, 88-89

Steve Dunwell back cover, 17, 19, 22, 68, 90 girl, 93 fisherman, 107 Nantucket

Roger Everett 66-67 dunlin, spotted sandpiper, merganser, yellowlegs, canvasback, eider, green-backed heron, sanderlings

Jeff Gnass 47, 102 schoolhouse, 105 station

Laurel Guadazno 82 goldenrod

Vincent Guadazno 59

William Hartley 16, 42-43 salt hay, snail, sea stars, scallop, lobster, anemone, eelgrass, sea robin, hermit, jelly, rock crabs, sea lettuce, 44, 66 osprey and oystercatcher, 82 water lily

Steven Heaslip, Cape Cod Times 28 inset

Historical Society of Old Yarmouth 51 Eldridge

William Johnson 6, 30, 53, 84-85, 86 umbrella, 92 lifeguard, 96 bikers, 101 windmill, 102 Penniman, 103 Great Island, 104 lighthouse, 109

Library of Congress, 32 Debry, 33 Champlain map, 36 both

Brad Luther, Coastal News Publications 60 map

Ralph Mackenzie 2-3, 9, 13, 18, 67 common terns and great blue heron, 87 artist, 100, 101 house, 105 blessing

Mariners Museum, Newport News 51 Red Jacket

Linda Minnich 58

David Muench 10-11, 12, 15,91 swamp

Mystic Seaport 46, 52

New Bedford Whaling Museum 48 whale, 106 figurehead

Dorothy Michele Novick 33 domed shelters, 75 cranberry art, 87 leaf, 90 crab, 93 shellfish, 94-95 whales, 98-99, 107 hawk, 108 tick, 111

Laurence Parent 97 swamp trail

Peabody Museum of Salem 50 Howes, 60-61 Ulysses

Pilgrim Society 33 treaty, 35 Mayflower

Mae Scanlan 8, 103 door

Richard Sheaff Collection 34 Pilgrims landing, 86 postcard and driver, 92 swimmer, 93 lure, 96 bike art

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities 63

Chatham crew, 71, 76, 77

Spaceshots, Inc. 20-21 Landsat Cape Cod image

Tom Till front cover

Connie Toops 66 ring-billed gull

Robert Tope 26-27 waning glacier

Glenn Van Nimwegen 4-5, 14, 31, 37, 90 tracks

As the Nation’s principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has responsibility for most of our nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes fostering sound use of our land and water resources; protecting our fish, wildlife, and biological diversity; preserving the environmental and cultural values of our national parks and historical places; and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. The Department assesses our energy and mineral resources and works to ensure that their development is in the best interest of all our people by encouraging stewardship and citizen participation in their care. The Department also has a major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who live in island territories under U.S. Administration.

Cape Cod

Illustrated features and nearly 200 color photographs and historic images complement Robert Finch’s narrative about Cape Cod’s rich natural and cultural history. Maps and a guide section make this a practical handbook for travelers to the Cape and the National Seashore.

ISBN 0-912627-56-5