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 Civil War Memorial
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Sandwich Civil War Memorial 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 41.7584, -70.5010 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is Town Hall Square - Korean - Vietnam Wars Memorial (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Nye Family Memorial Stone, Sandwich Town Hall, and Nye, Seth Freeman House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Sandwich Civil War Monument stands beside the town hall in a green known as Eaton Square. Although a committee had discussed honoring the town's Civil War dead as early as 1867, no memorial was built until 1911, when Brockton businessman William Eaton donated the roughly thirty-foot monument to the town. At its rain-soaked dedication, Boston mayor John F. 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald, grandfather of President John F. Kennedy, delivered an address; the town had sent nearly three hundred men to the war, of whom several dozen died.
Sources: sandwichhistory.orghmdb.org
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