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Cape Cod National Seashore
History & Culture

Cape Cod is only some 18,000 years old in geologic time, but its history includes a vast collection of people, places and events, most from a time long faded into memory. From the beginning of its creation to the foundation of its National Seashore. Cape Cod is one of the forbearers of our national heritage.

Modern Architecture and Cape Cod National Seashore

The Archaeology of Outer Cape Cod

Maritime History

Guglielmo Marconi and the Radio

French Transatlantic Cable

Pilgrims

Herring River dike, Wellfleet  

Did You Know?
Cape Cod National Seashore includes over 2500 acres of historically diked salt marshes, 35% of the Massachusetts total, and including some of the biggest diked marshes in the Gulf of Maine. Work continues, in cooperation with other agencies and private groups, to restore these degraded estuaries.

Last Updated: July 01, 2008 at 09:47 EST