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The Wildflower Garden is one of the cultivated gardens on the grounds of the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne, the Bourne Historical Society's 12-acre canal-side campus. A walk through the property passes several themed plantings, including Early American Gardens, a Three Sisters Garden, the Wildflower Garden, and more recent Hydrangea Gardens.
Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Bourne, Beth Memorial Wildflower Garden 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 41.7427, -70.6051 near Bourne. The nearest cataloged historic site is Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Replica Coastal Sloop (museum), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Aptucxet Trading Post Museum, Aptucxet Trading Post Marker, and Aptucxet Trading Post Caretaker's Cottage.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This site is part of the grounds of the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne, an open-air historical museum on the banks of the Cape Cod Canal. Its centerpiece is a replica of the trading post that Plymouth Colony Pilgrims established at Aptucxet in 1627 to trade with the Wampanoag and with the Dutch of New Amsterdam, the colonists' first permanent settlement on Cape Cod. After the original post was abandoned by the 1650s, the Bourne Historical Society acquired the land in 1922 and, following archaeological excavations, built the current replica on the original foundations in 1930. The wider museum property, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, also includes a memorial wildflower garden and other historic structures.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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