Camp Edwards
Camp Edwards is a United States military training installation located in western Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It was named after Major General Clarence Edwards, commander of the 26th Division in World War I.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: United States military training installation
- Also known as: “Camp Edwards Training Site” and “Camp Edwards-Garrison Training Site”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod and Barnstable County Correctional Facility.
Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod
Government office
Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located at Otis Air National Guard Base in Mashpee, Massachusetts and serves the Northeast U.S. from Canada to New York It was established in 1970.
Barnstable County Correctional Facility
Prison
The Barnstable County Correctional Facility is the county jail for Barnstable County. It was opened in 2004, replacing an earlier structure from the 1930s. Barnstable County Correctional Facility is situated 2 miles northwest of Camp Edwards.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hatchville and Mashpee.
Hatchville
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hatchville is a neighborhood within the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, United States. The mailing address for the area is East Falmouth, to the south of Hatchville. Hatchville is situated 2 miles southwest of Camp Edwards.
Mashpee
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mashpee is in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It includes the village of New Seabury. Purchased in 1660 to be a reservation for the Wampanoag tribe and later revoked and incorporated as a town. Until the 1960s, Wampanoags made up the majority of the population.
Forestdale
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forestdale is a village and census-designated place within the town of Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Forestdale had a population of 4,116. Forestdale is situated 3½ miles northeast of Camp Edwards.
Camp Edwards
- Categories: military training area, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Town of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.65705° or 41° 39′ 25″ northLongitude
-70.54392° or 70° 32′ 38″ westElevation
118 feet (36 metres)Open location code
87HFMF44+RCOpenStreetMap ID
node 158863222OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Korean—“Camp Edwards” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Camp Edwards”
- Korean: “캠프 에드워즈”
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