MassachusettsA contributing property in the Fort Hill Rural Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. This roughly 100-acre rural district in Eastham, within Cape Cod National Seashore, preserves a landscape of fields, woods and salt marsh grouped around the Knowles and Penniman houses that represents a pattern of Cape Cod farm settlement and land division from about 1750 to 1900. It reflects the regional shift away from communally worked open fields toward clusters of extended families jointly farming adjacent, individually held parcels, an organization that endured on the Knowles family holdings from 1786 until 1943. Portions overlap the Nauset Archaeological District (a National Historic Landmark for Historic Contact-period significance), and the Second Empire Captain Edward Penniman House and barn, the only whaling captain's house in Eastham, stand within its bounds.
Penniman, Capt. Edward Flagpole
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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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