Barnstable

Barnstable
Author: Stephen Robert Lovell Farrar
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0738598364
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In 1639, Barnstable was established by the Plymouth Plantation Colony as the third town on Cape Cod. Over time, Barnstable was divided into six distinct villages: Centerville, Cotuit, Hyannis, Marstons Mills, Osterville, and West Barnstable. Each of these communities grew and developed their own libraries, schools, churches, and general stores. Local industry was abundant, and residents were employed as blacksmiths, cobblers, copper smiths, and farmers. Saltworks, cranberry bogs, shipbuilding, and light industry also supported the area. Barnstable documents the evolution of the town between the 1839 centennial celebration and the 1939 tercentenary and shows how the advent of both the railroad and steam-powered ships spurred great change in the town's communities. Today, economic life revolves around Hyannis while the other villages have become more residential in nature.

Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich

Vital Records of the Towns of Barnstable and Sandwich
Author: Leonard H. Smith
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Barnstable (Mass. : Town)
ISBN: 0806346140
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The work at hand enumerates a list of 3,200 Ulster emigrants to Philadelphia between 1803 and 1850. Arranged alphabetically according to the head of the household--with other family members listed immediately under the head--the entries typically furnish the name of the emigrant, his/her age, town and county of origin, where given, year of emigration, and name of ship.

Soil Survey of Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Soil Survey of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Author: Peter C. Fletcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1993
Genre: Soil surveys
ISBN:
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...Contains information of use to land use planners, farmers, foresters and agronomists in evaluating the potential of soils in Barnstable County; it contains predictions of soil behavior for selected land uses; gives a brief historical and geological overview; identifies properties of all types of soils and describes their formation; tables show data on temperature and precipitation, growing season, freeze dates in Spring and Fall, prime farmland, woodland management and productivity, recreational development, wildlife habitat, building site developments, sanitary facilities, water management, engineering index properties, soil and water features and classification of soils...

Barnstable Village, West Barnstable, and Sandy Neck

Barnstable Village, West Barnstable, and Sandy Neck
Author: Edward O. Handy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738512136
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Barnstable Village borders on Barnstable Harbor and Cape Cod Bay, the basis for close ties with the sea that have endured for more than three hundred fifty years. Beginning in Colonial times and throughout the 1800s, the village of West Barnstable, next to the Great Marsh, was home to prominent figures in American history. Sandy Neck, a wild barrier beach, is the jewel in Barnstable's crown with a rich history of its own. Barnstable Village, West Barnstable, and Sandy Neck combines the histories of notable people, leisure activities, and working days from these three unique regions of the town of Barnstable.