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MacMillan, Donald B. Memorial is a historic memorial located at Commercial St in Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Provincetown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
MacMillan, Donald B. Memorial is a historical marker in Provincetown, 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 42.0513, -70.1852 near Provincetown. The nearest cataloged historic site is Surf Club, The (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Orient Express, The, Provincetown Board of Trade Building, and Equitable Life Insurance Company Building.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The memorial honors Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874-1970), an Arctic explorer born in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Over a career spanning nearly half a century he led or took part in more than 30 expeditions to the Arctic, beginning with Robert Peary's 1908-09 North Pole expedition. MacMillan is remembered for his scientific surveys of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic and for his work documenting Inuit life.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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