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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243C_doane-rock_Eastham-MA.html
Cape Cod is composed almost entirely of rock debris deposited by the ice age glaciers over 18,000 years ago. Most of this debris, called "glacial till", consists of clay, sand, and pebbles, but the ice age also deposited larger stones. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23Z4_the-outermost-house_Eastham-MA.html
Author and naturalist Henry Beston came to this shore in September 1927. On the dunes about a mile and a half to your right he built a cottage with two rooms and a fireplace. Here he lived a solitary year in the company of the ocean. His nearest n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23Z3_a-whale-bone-welcome_Eastham-MA.html
Inviting guests to step through the massive jawbones of a whale may seem an unusual way to say, "Welcome to our home." But for Captain Edward Penniman, there could be no more appropriate greeting. Born in Eastham, Captain Penniman earned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23Z2_theres-no-place-like-home_Eastham-MA.html
Edward Penniman's career as a man of the sea began at age 11. At 21, he was harpooning with the New Bedford, Massachusetts whaling fleet. By the time he was 29, he was master of his own whaling ship. Captain Penniman's seven whaling voyages spanne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23XX_changing-beach_Eastham-MA.html
The barren sandspit to your right was once the site of the Coast Guard Beach bathhouse and its asphalt parking area. Today they are gone, erased by the forces of the sea. In February 1978, the same winter storm that brought a famous blizzard to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WJ_indian-rock_Eastham-MA.html
For thousands of years before the Europeans landed, the Nauset Indians lived beside the marshes of Cape Cod. Among the evidence of their occupation is this community grinding rock, one of four such boulders found in the Nauset Bay area. Indians …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WI_port-de-mallebarre_Eastham-MA.html
Fifteen years before the Pilgrims landed on Cape Cod, French explorer Samuel de Champlain sailed down the Atlantic coast from Canada in search of new lands. On July 20, 1605, he entered here what was then a shallow bay. He named it Port de Malleba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23WD_the-life-savers_Eastham-MA.html
In the days before electronic navigational aids, the waters off Cape Cod with their hidden shoals held many dangers for passing ships, especially at night or during thick weather. In 1872 the U.S. Life-Saving Service established nine stations on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1735_kettles_Eastham-MA.html
A bird's eye view of Cape Cod reveals a landscape dimpled with holes. Most of them are nearly round, and many are filled wit water, like Salt Pond in front of you.Geologists call these intriguing depressions "kettles."They were formed over 18,000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1734_workboat-of-the-marshes_Eastham-MA.html
A remnant from Cape Cod's agriculture past, this 1850-era hay barge was a common sight among the working dories, skiffs, and catboats of the area. Wide and flat-bottomed, it was rowed, poled, and sailed throughout the shallow marshes. Salt marsh h…
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