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Town of Bourne MA Overview & Map
The Town of Bourne is a medium-sized rural community at the gateway to Cape Cod. Bourne contains the famous Cape Cod canal… -
How Can You Recognise an Original Cape Cod Style House?
How can you recognize an original Cape Cod style house? There are three types, which are very distinct, but they all follow the common Cape Cod pattern, a low, broad frame building, generally a story… -
Railroad Resurgence: Was The Cape Cod Rail Trail Shortsighted?
Did Cape Cod make a mistake by tearing up the railroad tracks to build bicycle trails? As fuel prices continue to be unstable and the nation’s highways become more congested, transportation experts… -
Declining Herring Stocks and Midwater Trawling
Over the last two decades local herring stocks have been on the decline. Both river herring and ocean herring (or sea herring)… -
Cape Cod Tourism Cooling Off?
Cape Cod tourism trends, Chamber of Commerce reports and season wrap-ups for 2006, 2007 and 2008. -
Cape Cod Railroad
The first railroad to serve the Cape was started in 1847, and ran as far as Sandwich. Ten years later it was extended to Barnstable and Yarmouth. It was originally called the Cape Cod Branch of the… -
Too Many Seals, Not Enough Sharks
The growing seal population on the Cape will be an ever increasing problem into the future. As a commercial… -
Cape Cod Rail Trail
The Cape Cod Rail Trail which first opened in 1979, typically gets 400,000 users a year. The scenery along the bike trail, which used to be the old railroad line (see background), features forested… -
Cape Cod Houses Most Popular
The most popular of all styles of houses in America today is almost surely our own Cape Cod style house. Go where you will throughout… -
Driving Directions From New York City to Cape Cod
If driving to Cape Cod from NY City, you are going to take Interstate 95 North through Connecticut and Providence then take Interstate 195 East to Route 25. You will enter the Cape over the Bourne Bridge… -
Without Spirit
For a long time the raising of rooftrees on Cape Cod was a merry occasion, and then for long it was a sober, businesslike time, as witnessed by this dispatch from Wellfleet, August 30, 1829: -
Banking up Cape Cellars
In past times Cape Cod houses had no cellar beneath their main body. That left part of the house exposed below to the open air. When cold weather was seen coming, when leaves began turning and apples… -
Blueberry Paint
The strangely beautiful silver look to the shingles of an old Cape Cod house may sometimes be used as a measurement of its comparative age. -
Cape Half Houses
For purely economic reasons, a newly married couple usually built a half a house, with two front windows, a door to one side of the windows, and a chimney behind the door. -
Sulphur Salvaged From Canal Cargo
On May 5, 1951, despite all the excellent precautions which are taken by Cape Cod Canal officers… -
Cape Cod Ma vs Newport RI
According to Google Trends Cape Cod MA lags far behind Newport RI… -
Yarmouth’s Boast
The widespread interest that people have in the style of dwelling known as the Cape Cod house affords… -
Cape Cod Canal Vision
Miles Standish saw the Cape Cod Canal in his mind’s eye. He was the first person, so rumor has it, to propose that a canal should or could some day be dug from one side of the Cape to the other.… -
Footless Fowl
Just as there are ”Cape Cod Cats”, so also is there what some folks call… -
Housing Problem
The early Cape houses varied greatly, according to men’s means, and became more elaborate from generation… -
Sea Captains’ Mansions
The square Georgian mansions of Cape Cod were built by the old-time sea captains. Like everything else on the Cape, they are modest and in good taste. -
The Cape Cod Cottage
An aged Cape Cod house is the first preference of every inlander who dreams of establishing a home here. Either a Half-House, Three-Quarter House, or Whole-House—the older the better. For these… -
In Barnstable Bay
Typical of the hundreds upon hundreds of shipwrecks that have occurred along the great hook of Cape Cod is the sinking of the schooner Almira. -
The Front Door was for the Minister
Traditionally, a visitor to a Cape Cod style house did not announce himself at the front door. He would conform to one of the oldest native customs and go around to the kitchen or side door. (Most old… -
Canal Will Fail, They Said
The building of the Cape Cod Canal was not accomplished in a day — nor without a great deal of controversy. Skeptics asserted that it would be a failure and would never make enough money to achieve… -
Cape Cod Canal II?
Is the present Canal the second canal that Cape Cod has had? In one sense, yes. For, back in 1717, and doubtless before then, there was a narrow passage of clear water that found its way through “Jeremy’s… -
Half A Chimney Half A Door
We hope that the two persons who first owned the Cahoon House in Osterville got along well together. They would have been an unhappy pair had they not, for they were bound together by the house which… -
Wooden Chimneys
Since, even today, our well made chimneys are often sources of fire risk, it is astonishing to learn that early Cape Codders once used chimneys of wood. -
Brrrrrrrr!
What’s nicer than a cool, crisp Fall evening, with the winds howling outside, a roaring fireplace, a glass of hot cider, popcorn, and congenial friends about? -
Inside a Cape Cod House
Cape Cod houses fool people. They are roomier on the inside than anyone judging from their outside appearance, would guess. -
Nary a Painter
An unpainted house today draws attention to itself by the very fact that it is unpainted. It is either a new house not yet ready to live in, or an old, neglected, weather-worn house that, once upon… -
Cape Cod Going North?
The following is a report from 1955 regarding the warming of local ocean waters and it’s effect on Cape codfish stocks: -
Provincetown Creamed Codfish
1/2 pound salt codfish 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour teaspoon pepper 1 cup milk Dash of Tabasco sauce 1 egg, beaten -
Cape Cod Icecapade
Back in 1933-34 the Cape experienced a winter it has not yet forgotten. It was so cold that saltwater ice formed early, first in the various creeks, then in the harbors of Wellfleet and Provincetown,… -
Codfish Economy
Around the year 1750, there lived in Boston, John Welch, a patriot and citizen of importance, and a captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. Captain Welch realized the importance of the… -
Widow’s Walk
Widow’s walks or “captain’s walks” are found on houses by the sea, especially the sea captain’s homes of Cape Cod. -
Stovepipe Hole
Everyone knows what a thimble is, but besides the most familiar meaning there is also that of a covering for a stovepipe hole in a wall. Every parlor wall used to have a thimble where the “airtight”… -
The First Booths
When some of the men from Plymouth came to Sandwich to start a settlement of their own they are believed to have built shelters called “booths.” These were efficient but not luxurious. … -
Bring Oiled Paper For Your Windows
If you take a piece of plain paper, oil it lightly, and then hold it to the light, you will see that it lets in light but you will not see through it. The windows of the first Cape Cod houses had oiled… -
The Cape Cod Canal
There had to be a Cape Cod Canal. The long projecting arm of the Cape adds miles to coastwise traffic, 70 miles from Boston to New York, not to speak of the peril from violent storms that rage around… -
When the Cape Cod Canal Was Begun
The first shovelful of earth to start the making of Cape Cod Canal was dug on June 29, 1904. With that shovelful was inaugurated one of the most important coastal developments ever undertaken in the… -
1955 Cape Fishing Report
The following is a Cape Cod fishing report from the Spring of 1955. It gives a good idea of how the spring fishing was a little over half a century ago. -
Old Cape Cod Kitchens
Old Cape Cod kitchens were always fresh and cool, open to all work in the summer, and used for storage and common work in the winter. -
Drum Cellars & Witch Doors
A Cape Cod house was sometimes built with a “drum cellar.” This is a room encircled by a brick wall, and it has a trap door overhead with steep ladder stairs up to the first floor. This… -
Clam Shell Horse Hair Plaster
Imagination, ingenuity, and clever hands were needed in the early days of Cape Cod, when the houses, some of which stand sturdily today, were built to stand against the elements of winter winds and… -
Sandwich Has Oldest House
Sandwich is a lovely Cape town, with shaded streets and well kept homes. Be certain and observe the view of the church spires as you pass along Route 6A and better yet take the bypass into the center… -
The Sea Around Us
The familiar title of Rachel Carson’s book, The Sea Around Us, aptly describes the Cape Codder’s situation. For Cape Cod, once a peninsula and now (because of the Canal) an island,… -
Cape Cod Houses Faced the South
Cape Codders years ago made common use of the architectural idea, common today, that the living room of the house should face the south. -
Three Bridges Over the Cape Cod Canal
The three bridges leading to the Cape over the Cape Cod Canal are the Sagamore, Bourne, and railroad bridges. All were built in the mid-thirties, during depression days. -
Some Codfish Facts
The cod’s teeth are sharp, uneven, and pointed. It has no “grinders.” Codfish eat everything from crabs & clams to herring and other fish. You can tell what the cod have been eating…
