Forestdale
Forestdale is a village and census-designated place within the town of Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population of Forestdale was 4,099 at the 2010 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 4,100 residents
- Description: census designated place in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Forestdale, MA” and “Forestdale, Massachusetts”
- Postal code: 02644
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forestdale School and Cleveland Island.
Forestdale School
School
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The Forestdale School, also known as the Greenville School, is a historic one-room school building at 87 Falmouth-Sandwich Road in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
Cleveland Island
Island
Cleveland Island is a small heavily forested island located in Wakeby Pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts. It once belonged to president Grover Cleveland. Cleveland once said that Daniel Webster caught a trout near the island, and then "talked mighty strong and fine to that fish and told him what a mistake he had made, and that he would have been all right if he had left the bait alone. Cleveland Island is situated 1½ miles southeast of Forestdale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mashpee and East Sandwich.
Mashpee
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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.
East Sandwich
Hamlet
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East Sandwich is a village and census-designated place within the town of Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. East Sandwich is situated 4 miles northeast of Forestdale.
Sandwich
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Sandwich is on Cape Cod in Massachusetts at the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, and includes the villages of East Sandwich and Forestdale. It is the oldest town on the Cape, settled in 1637.
Forestdale
Latitude
41.69177° or 41° 41′ 30″ northLongitude
-70.49947° or 70° 29′ 58″ westPopulation
4,100Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)Open location code
87HFMGR2+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158841709OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4937033Wikidata ID
Q972501
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Forestdale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورستدال”
- Cebuano: “Forestdale”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特代爾”
- French: “Forestdale”
- German: “Forestdale”
- Gilaki: “فؤرستدیل (ماساچۊست)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرستدیل”
- Irish: “Forestdale”
- Italian: “Forestdale”
- Ladin: “Forestdale”
- Persian: “فورستدیل، ماساچوست”
- Persian: “فورستدیل”
- Polish: “Forestdale”
- Portuguese: “Forestdale”
- Serbian: “Фористдејл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forestdale, Massachusetts”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forestdale”
- Silesian: “Forestdale”
- South Azerbaijani: “فورستدیل، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Forestdale”
- Tatar: “Форестдейл”
- Turkish: “Forestdale”
- Ukrainian: “Форестдейл”
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