Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 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.
“The old Bourne High School is a historic school building at 85 Old Cotuit Road in Bourne, Massachusetts. Built in 1905 and enlarged in 1937, it is a prominent local example of Colonial Revival architecture.”
Wikipedia article Old Bourne High School building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 145 National Register listings in Barnstable County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Bourne Town in Bourne High School Yearbook, published 1900 names Bourne. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
For the past ten years the scholars of the Bourne High School have been expecting a new building in which to finish their course. Every March we have attended the regular town meeting in anticipation of a new High SchiK)l building voted tons; but each year we have returned in disappointment and resumed our seats in the old, dark and unhealthy building. Until now it remains for some future class to return, not with disappointment but with joy.
Passage source: Bourne High School Yearbook, published 1900.
Of the Graduating Class of the Bourne High School are most cordially invited to place their orders with us for their graduating outfit; assuring them the latest up to-date styles and such fabrics as will be adapted to the occasion.
Passage source: Bourne High School Yearbook, published 1900.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Bourne Town - 5,230 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Bourne High School between 2001 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 10 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 | 70 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Smoking | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WAREHAM |
| 7 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WAREHAM |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WAREHAM |
| 4 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | WAREHAM |
| 4 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,178 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bourne High School between 1816 and 1975: 1,203 Animalia, 544 Plantae, 340 Fungi, 73 Chromista, 8 Bacteria, 7 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. H. Moore, A. R. Hodgdon 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Tolyposporium eriocauli G.P.Clinton | 1900 | G.P. Clinton | |
 | Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle | 1900 | G. P. Clinton | |
 | Cistus L. | 1816 | Boott, F.M. | Sandwich, Massts. [=Sandwich, Massachusetts]. |
| Lythraceae | 1816 | Boott, J.W. | Sandwich, Mass'ts. | [On reverse of sheet:] From Sandwich, Mass'ts U.S.A. [=From Sandwich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.] | |
 | Malva neglecta Wallr. | 1816 | Boott, J.W. | Sandwich. Mass.tts. |
 | Chilomycterus geometricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | 1860 | unknown | Buzzards Bay |
 | Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800) | 1872 | V. Edwards & United States Bureau of Fisheries | Wareham River, Massachusetts. |
 | Opsanus tau (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | not recorded | Cataimet, Massachusetts, Squateagus near Woods Hole |
 | Pandalus leptocerus S.I.Smith, 1881 | 1875 | United States Fish Commission | off Martha's Vineyard, southwest ledge |
 | Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville | 1875 | B. E. Livingston | Woods Hole, Butlers Point |
 | Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1875 | United States Fish Commission | Nobska Beach |
 | Castanea Mill. | 1876 | Farlow, W.G. | Newton, Mass. |
All 2,178 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bourne, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 waterspout. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Lightning | Bourne | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bourne | $30,000 | Thirty to forty trees were downed in a square mile area in the vicinity of Shore Road and Beach Street. |
| July 2006 | Lightning | Bourne | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Bourne | $10,000 | The Bourne rotary was flooded with two cars stuck in the water. Basement flooding also occurred in the area. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Bourne | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bourne | $5,000 | Wires on Canal Road in Bourne were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2019 | Lightning | Bourne | $2,000 | Lightning caused a house fire on Prestwick Road in Bourne. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bourne | $1,000 | At 4:43 PM EST, a tree was down across Back River Road in Bourne. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bourne | $800 | In Bourne, a tree and wires were down on Sandwich Road. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Bourne | - | In Bourne, 1 inch hail fell. |
| August 1997 | Waterspout | Bourne | - | Buzzards Bay |
| August 1997 | Waterspout | Bourne | - | Cape Cod Bay |
| August 2014 | Hail | Bourne | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Bourne | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Bourne | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Bourne | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bourne, Jonathan, Public Library | 0.2 miles | 2013 |
 | Briggs, George I., House | 0.2 miles | 1981 |
 | Bourne Town Hall | 0.6 miles | 2013 |
 | Bournedale Village School | 2.8 miles | 2013 |
 | Cataumet Schoolhouse | 5.1 miles | 2019 |
 | Jarves, John and Mary Waterman, House | 5.2 miles | 2002 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000035 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Barnstable County | All 145 listed properties in this county. |
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