Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2008. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“She was designed and built in 1900 by Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, as one of four identical sailing vessels, and was designated Crowninshield #149.”
Wikipedia article Gypsy (catboat), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 93 National Register listings in Plymouth County · listed in 2008 · category: Site · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Plymouth County.
National Register reference number.08000533- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
201 since 2001
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 201 fires within 5 miles of WITCH (catboat) between
2001 and 2020, burning about 111 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
71
Debris and open burning
51
Smoking
26
Arson/incendiarism
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Recreation and ceremony
7
Natural
5
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 2,716 specimens
collected within 10 miles of WITCH (catboat) between 1816 and
1975: 1,398 Animalia, 782 Plantae, 380 Fungi, 122 Chromista, 29 Bacteria, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. C. Mathieson, A. H. Moore and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of WITCH (catboat): 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wareham, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A microburst occurred in Wareham with a thunderstorm associated with a band from superstorm Sandy. A swath of 60 to 70 mph wind gusts occurred with pockets of 80 to 90 mph gusts. The hardest hit locations in Wareham were Swifts Beach, Pinehurst, and Onset Bay Marina. The survey team determined that a damage area of 2 miles in length and 2 miles in width in this area. Based on radar signatures and eyewitness accounts, thunderstorm wind damage began in Falmouth around 6:25PM, then became more intense over Wareham around 6:40PM. The survey team determined that approximately 100 trees were significantly damaged or knocked down in Wareham, with many bringing down wires. The initial downdraft occurred in Swifts Beach then headed north-northeast over Pinehurst toward Narrows Road. In the Swifts Beach area there were numerous downed trees with one tree impaling the roof of a house on Sherman Street. Other points of interest were located on Pilgram Avenue, Judson Street, Pine Street, and Swifts Beach Road. Trees were also downed near the fire department on Main Street in downtown Wareham. Trees were also downed on Church Avenue at t he Redwood Park Elderly Complex. In the Pinehurst area of Wareham, downed trees were evident on Franconia Avenue and Pinehurst Drive. On Narrows Road, a couple of trees were knocked down across the road. In the Onset Bay Marina area, boats that were stored on a 3 story tier were tilted in their racks. A sailboat in the marina was tilted 90 degrees with the mast parallel with the water for about 2 minutes before righting itself. Additionally, 2 boats of unknown size were reportedly sunk in the downdraft. In the Nanumett Heights section of Point Independence (in Onset), significant tree damage was confirmed on Prospect and Webster Streets. The survey team and eyewitness accounts observed much of the tree damage to be oriented in a south to north direction, confirming a microburst.
In Wareham, a car was stuck in flood waters on the Cranberry Highway. A portion of Long Pond Road in Plymouth was flooded with over one foot of water near Gunners Exchange Road.
A south Wareham underpass was covered with 2 feet of water. A car was stuck in flood waters at the intersection of Cranberry Highway and Red Brook Road.
In Wareham, a trailer park was evacuated due to two feet of water, water was coming out of manhole covers on Route 28 by Tobee Road and a railroad underpass was flooded on Main Street near Tobee Road. One lane of Route 6 was closed due to flooding near the Old Rochester Regional High School in Marion.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
10,495 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) x A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. -B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. xC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: _A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. _ B removed from its original location. -C a birthplace or grave. _D a cemetery. _ E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. _F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Plymouth, MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Recreation/entertainment Social history Architecture Period of Significance 1901 - 1958 Significant Dates _ca.
1939- 45 Marconi main & jib arrangement Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Bowdoin Bradlee (B.B.) Crowninshield Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 08000533, 40 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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