Great Swamp

Great Swamp is in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Great Swamp is situated nearby to the hamlet Pond Village, as well as near North Truro.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old North Cemetery and Highland Light.

Old North Cemetery

Cemetery

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The Old North Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Truro, Massachusetts. The cemetery, formerly the Old North Graveyard, was established in 1713 on the Hill of Storms where the first church in Truro was built in 1709.

Highland Light

Museum

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The Highland Light is an active lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore in North Truro, Massachusetts. The current tower was erected in 1857, replacing two earlier towers that had been built in 1797 and 1831.

Highland House

Museum

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The Highland House is a historic hotel building, now serving as a museum, located at 6 Highland Light Road within the Cape Cod National Seashore in Truro, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Truro and Long Point.

Truro

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Truro is a town in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and includes the village of North Truro. Truro has great unspoiled natural beauty and beaches with high sandy cliffs on the ocean side.

Long Point

Locality

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Long Point is a spit of land located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the extreme tip of Cape Cod, where the peninsula curls back in on itself to form Provincetown Harbor. Long Point is situated 4½ miles west of Great Swamp.

Wellfleet

Photo: MattWade, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wellfleet is in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and includes the village of South Wellfleet. Its name is believed to be derived from "whale fleet". A quaint rural feel exists to Wellfleet.

Great Swamp

Type: Wetland
Address: MA
Category: body of water
Location: Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.01878° or 42° 1′ 8″ north

Longitude

-70.08267° or 70° 4′ 58″ west

Elevation

69 feet (21 metres)

Open location code

87JF2W98+GW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368984738

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

GeoNames ID

4938272

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