MassachusettsA contributing property in the Town Hall Square Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Comprising about 40 acres around Sandwich's town center, this district marks the site of the first settlement on Cape Cod, established in 1637 and incorporated in 1639. The community kept its agricultural character until 1825, when the Sandwich Glass Works transformed it into one of New England's earliest industrialized villages, a prosperity that lasted until the factory closed in 1888. The visual core is formed by the Greek Revival Town Hall (1834), the reconstructed Dexter Grist Mill, and Shawme Pond, surrounded by nine surviving 17th-century and fourteen 18th-century buildings alongside 19th-century houses. The district is significant as an almost intact early 19th-century village whose buildings from three centuries rest comfortably side by side.
Sandwich Academy Marker
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Sandwich Academy Marker is a historical marker in Sandwich, 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 41.7552, -70.4982 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hoxie House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Burgess Memorial Bandstand, House at 18 School St, and House at 20 Water St.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Sandwich Academy Marker on Water Street commemorates the Sandwich Academy, one of the private secondary schools established in Massachusetts towns in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before public high schools became widespread. Placed in 1971, it is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district in Sandwich, the oldest town on Cape Cod.
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