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Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21.
Access to the Coast Guard Beach in Eastham will be closed Tuesday, May 21, from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM so seashore staff can create an accessible path in advance of the summer season.
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Storm damage, construction affecting access at seashore locations; reduction in programming
Due to erosion, there is no beach access at Nauset Light and Marconi beaches. Access at the Marconi Site is limited. Parts of the Nauset Marsh and Red Maple Swamp trails are closed. Nauset Bike Trail construction is underway. More »
Further Readings
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Bigger, H.P. (editor). The Works of Samuel de Champlain, Volume I (1599-1607). The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1922. Map is Plate LXXV, following page 358. Bragdon, Kathleen J. Native People of Southern New England: 1500-1650. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983. Ekholm, Erik and James Deetz. “The Wellfleet Tavern.” Natural History 80 (1971):49-56. McManamon, Francis P. “Prehistoric Land Use on Outer Cape Cod.” Journal of Field Archaeology 9 (1982):1-20. McManamon, Francis P. and James W. Bradley. “The Indian Neck Ossuary.” Scientific American 256(5) [1988]:98-104. Yentsch, Anne E. "Farming, Fishing, Whaling, Trading: Land and Sea as Resource on Eighteenth-century Cape Cod." Documentary Archaeology in the New World, edited by Mary C. Beaudry, pp. 138-160. Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
Did You Know?
In 1959, Massachusetts Senators John F. Kennedy and Leverett Saltonstall introduced the legislation that led to the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore. Two years later, in 1961, then-President John F. Kennedy signed into law Public Law 87-126 which authorized Cape Cod National Seashore.