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Decorative drawing: a busy small-town main street. Not a photograph of this place.

Orleans Town

The complete chapter on this town from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890. 30 words, covering 8 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.

Contents

1 section

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

The modern record here

8 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
East Orleans69--3,007
Namskaket75--3,566
Nauset Heights69--2,463
Orleans7413-3,239
Rock Harbor792-3,229
South Orleans87113,087
Tonset732-2,619
Weeset76-12,660

Settlements in this township

8 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 8 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

30 words

Reproduced complete and unedited from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.

Orleans Town

Orleans before its Division from Eastham. - Incorporation. - Natural Featut«s. - Wreck of the Sparrowhawk. - Roads.- Early Settlers. - Various Events. - Industries. - Churches. - Cemeteries. - Schools. - Civil History. - Villages. - Biographical Sketches 747

Provenance

Text from History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890, in the public domain in the United States and 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.