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Town Pump and Watering Trough Marker is a historic marker located at Locust Rd in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1979. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Old Town Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Town Pump and Watering Trough Marker 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 41.8360, -69.9758 near Eastham. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gill, Abijah and Priscilla Mayo Doane House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Knowles, Freeman and Fanny Smith House, Doane, Knowles and Lucinda Cobb House, and House at 130 Locust Rd.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This marker on Locust Road in Eastham commemorates the town pump and watering trough that once served travelers and their horses at this spot. Placed in 1979, it is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district recalling everyday nineteenth-century village life on the Outer Cape.
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