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Falmouth Pumping Station Low-lift Pump Building is a landmark in Falmouth, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.5718, -70.6140 near Falmouth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Falmouth Pumping Station Chlorination Tank (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Falmouth Pumping Station, Falmouth Water Department Stock House and Garage, and Oak Grove Cemetery - Anspach Marker.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Falmouth resisted a municipal water supply for years; pressure from summer property owners and rising fire insurance rates finally forced the issue, and the Falmouth Water Supply Company — controlled by those same summer residents — was organized in 1898 on land given by one of its proprietors, Joseph Story Fay. The town bought the company out by 1902. Ernest N. Boyden, a Massachusetts architect known for waterworks, designed the 1898 pumphouse across the road; the low-lift pumping and treatment building is a plain brick structure added in 1993 alongside a million-gallon concrete chlorination tank. The complex was listed on the National Register in 1998.
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