Newcomb, Bill Shop

A contributing property in the Paine Hollow Road South Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. This small Wellfleet district gathers seven 19th-century residences linked by the ties of the Paine family, who settled here near Blackfish Creek. Their modest, vernacular dwellings represent two locally important house forms, the 1-1/2-story side-gabled Cape Cod cottage and the later Greek Revival sidehall type, and reflect the working-class roots of a family engaged in both subsistence farming and, increasingly, the maritime trades that centered on the busy landing at Blackfish Creek. The district illustrates Wellfleet's broader shift from a community of fishing and small-scale agriculture toward a summer resort where maritime interests still mattered, and it holds archaeological potential for studying 19th-century coastal livelihoods.

Newcomb, Bill Shop is a landmark in Wellfleet, 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 41.9144, -70.0071 near Wellfleet. The nearest cataloged historic site is Whorf, Benjamin B. and Abigail Rider Paine House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Paine, Capt. Isaac F. and Catherine Rider - Wiley, Capt. Warren W. and Elizabeth Paine House, Paine, Nathan Y. House, and Paine, Ebenezer C. and Catherine Snow House.

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