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This herb and Wampanoag-themed garden is among the cultivated plantings on the grounds of the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne, run by the Bourne Historical Society. The museum's gardens include a Three Sisters Garden reflecting the corn, beans, and squash cultivated by the Wampanoag, complementing the site's interpretation of the 1627 trading post established to trade with the Wampanoag people.
Aptucxet Trading Post Museum - Bourne Historical Society Herb and Wampanoag 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 41.7424, -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, Aptucxet Trading Post Visitor Comfort Station, and Aptucxet Trading Post Musuem - Pavilion.
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The Aptucxet Trading Post Museum in Bourne, Massachusetts, is a replica of the trading post that Plymouth Colony established at Aptucxet in 1627 to trade with the Wampanoag and with Dutch colonists from New Netherland, one of the earliest such posts in North America. The reconstruction was built in the 1930s over the original 17th-century foundations. Operated by the Bourne Historical Society on a campus beside the Cape Cod Canal, its grounds also include President Grover Cleveland's private railroad station and a windmill.
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