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Penniman, Capt. Edward Flagpole is a historic object located at Fort Hill Rd in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1868. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A contributing property in the Fort Hill Rural Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Penniman, Capt. Edward Flagpole is a historical marker in Eastham, 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 41.8186, -69.9657 near Eastham. The nearest cataloged historic site is Penniman, Capt. Edward House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Penniman, Capt. Edward Stone Retaining Wall, Penniman, Capt. Edward Decorative Wooden Fence, and Penniman, Capt. Edward Whalebone Gate.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Penniman Flagpole stands on Fort Hill Road in Eastham near the Captain Edward Penniman House, an ornate 1868 Second Empire home built by a successful Cape Cod whaling master and now part of Cape Cod National Seashore. Individually listed on the National Register, the flagpole is associated with one of the Outer Cape's best-known nineteenth-century sea captains.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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