MuseumAptucxet Trading Post Museum
Bourne · Barnstable County
Massachusetts history, up close and curated.
The Story
The Aptucxet Trading Post Museum is a small open-air museum in Bourne on the banks of the Cape Cod Canal, centered on a 1930 replica of the trading post built in 1627 by Plymouth Colony to trade with the Wampanoag and Dutch, the first trading post the Plymouth colonists established and their first permanent foothold on Cape Cod. The replica was reconstructed atop the original stone foundations following excavations conducted from 1926 to 1929 by Percival Hall Lombard and Nathan Bourne Hartford, and the 12-acre complex, run by the Bourne Historical Society, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
About this site
Aptucxet Trading Post Museum is a museum in Bourne, Barnstable County. It is one of 16 museums documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.7425, -70.6055 near Bourne. The nearest cataloged historic site is Aptucxet Trading Post Marker (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Bourne Historical Society Herb and Wampanoag Garden, Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Bourne, Beth Memorial Wildflower Garden, and Aptucxet Trading Post Saltworks.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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