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COVE BURIAL GROUND (24)
This ancient cemeter y, which dates from the mid 1600s to 1770, is one of the oldest cemeteries on Cape Cod. It has some of the oldest slate grave- stones and the oldest known inscribed eldstone gravestones on the Cape. Located near Town Cove on Route 6, it marks the sites of the town’s rst Congregational Church. It is the nal resting place of three May ower passengers: Constance
THE PENNIMAN HOUSE BY ANDREA DANIELS
Hopkins Snow (1677), Lt. Joseph Rogers (1678), and Giles Hopkins (1690), as well as most of the oldest families known to Eastham. NRHP*
BRIDGE ROAD CEMETERY (20)
This cemetery is noted for its variety of gravestone styles spanning two centuries from 1754 to 1886. Some have elaborate inscriptions and epitaphs. NRHP*
Also of historical signi cance are two additional Eastham cemeteries: Evergreen Cemetery (9) dating back to 1806 and Congregational and Sol- diers Cemetery (10) started in 1813 are located side by side on Route 6 in Eastham.
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HENRY BESTON'S OUTERMOST HOUSE
Henry Beston came to the Cape as a journalist writing about the Coast Guard. Like most of us who visit the seashore, he was smitten and didn’t want to leave.The Henry Beston Society summarizes it well:
Eventually, he had a 20-foot by 16- foot house called “The Fo’castle” built on the dunes of Eastham in 1925, came to visit his shanty for
a two-week vacation, and decided
to stay for one year. Beston meditated on the rhythms of waves, observed the migrations of birds, and braved the brutal elements in severe winter weather. At the end of his “year on the beach,” he decided that “it was time to close my door,” and returned to his native Quincy. The Fo’castle was ripped from the dunes of the Great Beach in the Blizzard of 1978. www.henrybeston.org
PHOTO BY NAN TURNER
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