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A contributing property in the Wellfleet Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Historical Marker
Wellfleet Town Pump
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About this site
Wellfleet Town Pump is a historical marker in Wellfleet, 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 41.9371, -70.0299 near Wellfleet. The nearest cataloged historic site is Atwood, Simeon and Company Store (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Atwood, Simeon Stove Shop and Storage Building, Adams Lodge - Wellfleet Masonic Hall, and Stone, Dr. William Newcomb and Adeline Hamblen House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Wellfleet Town Pump on Bank Street, dating to about 1885, is a historic public water pump that once supplied the center of this Outer Cape fishing town. It survives as a contributing object in a National Register historic district, a rare reminder of the era before municipal water systems.
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