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