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Dixon, Charles W. Memorial Boulder is a historic memorial located at Phinneys Ln in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1922. It is part of a local historic district.
Historical Marker
Dixon, Charles W. Memorial Boulder
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About this site
Dixon, Charles W. Memorial Boulder is a historical marker in Barnstable, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.6931, -70.3037 near Barnstable. The nearest cataloged historic site is Stocking Rock (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Bursley, Charles - Dixon, Charles C. House, Snow, Newell and Dorothy House, and Sears, Bernard M. House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Charles W. Dixon Memorial Boulder on Phinneys Lane in Barnstable honors a local figure with an inscribed glacial boulder, a common New England form of commemoration. Recorded as dating to 1922, it stands within a local historic district.
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