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Dennis Town

The complete chapter on this town from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published in 1890. 32 words, covering 7 settlements.

Contents

1 section

The section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.

The modern record here

7 settlements

What the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.

SettlementFires Storm reportsMines and quarries Specimens
Dennis4416-4,342
Dennis Port68--2,576
East Dennis46--4,199
New Boston55--4,336
North Dennis47--4,370
South Dennis83--2,994
West Dennis785-2,706

Settlements in this township

7 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 0 of the 7 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

32 words

Reproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1890 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.

Dennis Town

Natural Features. - First Settlers of Nobscusset. - Incorporation. - Development. - Industries. - Churches. - Cemeteries. - Schools. - Civil History. - The Villages, their Industries and Institutions. - Biographical Sketches 607

Provenance

Text from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, by Deyo, Simeon L, published 1890 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.